Shark Boy's Adventure

Let me just start off by saying sighhhhhhh....what a day.

This morning started out as your average day in The Scott home which actually is never average because with a 7,4 & 2 year old nothing ever is the same or average.

We actually slept in a bit and after the nice rain storm last night this momma was hoping for a day to DEEP CLEAN my house.

At least 4 loads of laundry to be put away

3 to be washed

Toys everywhere

You get the idea.

We needed to take a "rainy" day inside. (although it was perfectly sunny)

At about 9:30 Connor my 4 year old came around the corner of the kitchen/entry way into the living room and ran into the wall with his side... ya know us clumsy people just have to gravitate towards the wall can't just walk normal around it.

Anyways he was crying and like everyone momma... I got annoyed after about 30 seconds of the whinning... i mean after all how bad could he really have hurt himself.

While I was looking over him I was asking him questions and he stopped answering, I turned him to face me and he was rolling his eyes in his head, going lethargic and turning blue....which for us always leads to Pure white... Mouth white, lips white...and tongue a chalk white.

He passed out in my arms and started shaking...

This is not something new to us. This happened about 6 months ago when he ran into the coffee table. Everyone still in PJ's ran to car grabbed keys and raced to the local Emergency Room.

There we proceeded to have blood work.... which took 3 sticks 2 blown veins and a very unhappy 4 year old boy. So by the third stick I had him convinced that when they put the IV in it would give him special super powers like Shark Boy (no clue what movie shark boy is even from...yikes.) We proceeded to have a CT done and Chest X-Ray. The E.R. doc came in and told us they were moving us to the Children's Hospital an hour away to see the Pediatric Neurology team. So Connor and I jumped in the back of the ambulance, Ben went and took the two girls to a friend's house (Thank you Charis!!!) and meet us at the Children's hospital...

We were greeted by several doctors at Children's Hospital and he was promptly put in a room... yeah you know what that means... we were going to be staying for a bit.

They asked a bazillion questions.

Ruled out Fever seizures (since he didn't have one).

They told us they were going to do an EEG & MRI... sigh, but it would be in the morning...

Thru further talking we found out that the doctor truly thought that since he has had this happen a few times, that he was having what they used to call "Death Spells" or "Holding Breath Spells". Umm okay but he wasn't holding his breath...

So we talked for awhile and basically the gist of it is when your mind is in shock after something physical or emotional... and has to reboot.

SO if you saw someone having a baby you might pass out...

or if you saw someone get blood drawn you may pass out...

Well our Shark Boy apparently passes out when he has trama to his body..

NICE... huh.

A 4 year old boy who's brain has to re boot when it's been traumatized.

So after lots of discussion lot's of Doctors poking asking questions and doing exams we begged I mean politely asked if we could come back as out patients for the EEG. They were happy to oblige since there is nothing you can do for death spells or holding breath spells...

We will do the EEG to rule out anything else since these have been re occurring over a period of 4 years. It literally looks like death when he is doing these episodes...

If the EEG comes back with any abnormalities we will do the MRI...

Seeing your baby boy as ghostly white as can be and completely lifeless in your arms is horrifying. I have done this a total of 4 times now. Will you join me in praying that we don't EVER have to go thru this again and that God would line his brain up with his will, and that is to be healthy and whole!! I know you will.

My husband and I are going out of town tom. morning and I have complete peace about leaving him with our friends, but the momma in me can only picture what i saw early this morning. Please pray I can enjoy my hubby for our anniversary trip ( a month late).

We are at home now and he is honestly doing really great! He looks good and is his normal self. I think I many invest in bubble wrap though.... Wonder how that would work in Georgia summer heat....