No more seizures last night. This morning was rough though. Lauren woke with migrane headache symptoms from the earlier seizure, we couldn't find our nurse, they wouldn't give her more morphine as she had 35 more minutes until 4 hour dose limit was up, and the resident was shining lights in her eyes and asking stupid questions like "Does the pain medication help you with your pain?" while Lauren lay there wimpering. I wanted to choke the resident, and the nurse for that matter.
That helped me decide that it was time to resume running, which I haven't done for the past 2 weeks.
Our primary neurologist, Dr. Dlugos, is on this weekend. He saw the recording of the seizure. Turns out it lasted for 90 seconds and started out as a smaller localized twitch that escalated. That is good as it is a more "normal" progression.
As I was here typing away peacefully, Lauren moans, I look over, and she is reaching out for the side of the bed, preparing to seize. Then she does at 1:15. Probably another 90 seconds. This is good. As it is daytime, everything works and everyone comes. Not much to be done but we talk about it and help calm her. The EEG screen on the wall was amazing. Like the lie detector pattern, but instead of the small area of unusual patterns like we saw with the intercranial seizures, these were all seriously bold and exagerated.
Right now, Sandra and I are unsure what to do regarding visitors. These seizures aren't pretty (for an example youtube grand mal seizures) and I see this as our "work time". Ultimately, we will leave it up to Lauren and right now she is out of it.
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