Brianna Has Another Seizure

Brianna had a seizure last Monday night, December 1st. This is almost two years to the day from her first seizure. Her first seizure happened on December 6, 2006 -- she had just gone to bed and hadn't been sleeping for more than 20 minutes when she woke up and came running out to me in the kitchen before she started to seize. Scariest night of my life!! Later, she told me that she was scared because it felt like something was crawling all over her legs and she wanted to tell me. We took her to the hospital that night and they drew blood, took a urine sample, did a CAT scan... and found nothing wrong. She hadn't been sick or running a fever, either. We saw her pediatrician the next morning and she ordered and MRI and and EEG. The MRI was normal, but the EEG came back as "abnormal" so she scheduled an appointment for us with a pediatric nuerologist specialist at Children's Hospital in Omaha. We have been seeing him every six months since. He didn't want to put Brianna on medication because so many people will have one seizure and never have another one. We had another EEG done after one year, and those results came back normal. Now a year later, she has another seizure...

This second seizure also happened at bedtime. We had just come home from Zach's basketball game and she had a little snack and went to bed. It wasn't more than 15-20 minutes and CJ heard her crying, so he went to check on her. He found her seizing in her bed. This seizure didn't last as long as the first one, but was scary just the same! We didn't go to the hospital this time, but did call the pediatrician in the morning. She called the specialist in Omaha and another EEG was scheduled. The results came back as "abnormal" and since this is a second seizure, the specialist decided to put her on medicine. He has not labeled her with anything specific, only calling it a "seizure disorder" right now, but our pediatrician has told us that most likely she has "benign epilepsy"... benign in this case meaning that she should grow out of it when she gets older. So we are keeping our fingers crossed. In the meantime, we have her on the medicine for our own peace of mind. We will keep you updated on her prognosis.