Have you ever been in a grocery or Target type store with all your kiddos and had a lovely employee tell your children to "please sit down in the cart!"? Well I have...several times. Each time I politely smile and say sorry, but all the while my brain is filled with smart aleck comments like "hey, last time I checked, I was their mother," or, "lady it's either standing up in the cart or pulling product off your shelves-you choose!"
I have been sufficiently humbled. This morning, like all mornings, I put Eliza in her high chair to get her out of my hair for a moment so that I could make breakfast. She immediately climbed out and was about to stand on the table when she lost her balance and fell to the floor. I raced over to pick her up and noticed that while she was trying to scream nothing was coming out of her mouth. I picked her up and she started seizing, her eyes rolled back into her head and then she went limp.
No words can describe the thoughts that were racing through my head. I honestly thought she was dead or was dying. I screamed at the top of my lungs for Dave (he was home---thank the heavens,) picked up the phone and called 911. Dave grabbed Liza and tried to get her to start breathing while I was hysterically screaming to the 911operator to hurry hurry hurry. The paramedics arrived, strapped her to a backboard and left with Dave to the hospital. She got to the ER, had CAT scans and everything checked out just fine. She is now 100%...no problems whatsoever. In fact, the first thing she did when she got home was climb up on the table!
Needless to say, we are humbled and ever so grateful that she is healthy. It is amazing how life can change courses within a matter of seconds. I hope that I never forget the feeling of holding my lifeless daughter in my arms...it needs to be a reminder that there are mechanisms out there to keep my children safe and I need to use them. So, next time I am in WalMart and the lovely employee asks my children to sit down, I will smile at her and say thank you.
I have been sufficiently humbled. This morning, like all mornings, I put Eliza in her high chair to get her out of my hair for a moment so that I could make breakfast. She immediately climbed out and was about to stand on the table when she lost her balance and fell to the floor. I raced over to pick her up and noticed that while she was trying to scream nothing was coming out of her mouth. I picked her up and she started seizing, her eyes rolled back into her head and then she went limp.
No words can describe the thoughts that were racing through my head. I honestly thought she was dead or was dying. I screamed at the top of my lungs for Dave (he was home---thank the heavens,) picked up the phone and called 911. Dave grabbed Liza and tried to get her to start breathing while I was hysterically screaming to the 911operator to hurry hurry hurry. The paramedics arrived, strapped her to a backboard and left with Dave to the hospital. She got to the ER, had CAT scans and everything checked out just fine. She is now 100%...no problems whatsoever. In fact, the first thing she did when she got home was climb up on the table!
Needless to say, we are humbled and ever so grateful that she is healthy. It is amazing how life can change courses within a matter of seconds. I hope that I never forget the feeling of holding my lifeless daughter in my arms...it needs to be a reminder that there are mechanisms out there to keep my children safe and I need to use them. So, next time I am in WalMart and the lovely employee asks my children to sit down, I will smile at her and say thank you.
WE LOVE YOU ELIZA!
(this pic was taken while she was in the hospital asleep on the bed...NOT AT HOME!)
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Today, he is mostly Ok. He occasionally has spells of tossing things for no reason, is prone to lighting things on fire and other mindless activities. He lost the part of the brain that allows him to think before he acts. I expect she will be missing something you won't see until she is a teenager.
Never-the-less we are so grateful!!!
We love you guys and we are sooooo glad she is alright.
xoxo
She is such a doll.