Scariest Moment of My Life!

Being a mom comes with lots of worry, tears, embaressment, laughs and even scares. You worry when your child is learning to walk and takes a nasty fall leaving a goose egg the size of a golf ball on their head. You laugh when they learn to talk and mix words up making the funniest sentences. You cry when they have to get shots because you know it's going to hurt them. You are embaressed when they strip in the grocery store or tell complete strangers they know how to poo in the potty and sometimes they are big poos. Motherhood has few, if any, dull momemts! Last night I experiecnced the scariest moment in my life and hope to never repeat it. Zach was running late from work and we were trying to wait to eat dinner with him. The boys were taking turns on the Wii Fit to entertain themselves and forget they were starving! Cody had been waiting and finally got his turn. Tyler disapeared upstairs and Ryan was.....well I am not sure where Ryan was.

Anyway Zach called a few minutes before 7 and said he was on his way. No big deal, it's Friday we can stay up late! I sat down to read on the couch and Cody had started a short run on his profile. Basically what you do is run in place following a Mii, then eventually a dog for a certain distance. Cody loves to do this! He thinks it is funny to run past the guide and win the race since he thinks they are racing. AS they run there are sound effects on the wii and soon I realized the sound was gone, but Cody hadn't said "I won!" like normal. I look up and he is laying flat on his back starring at the ceiling. I say "Cody what are you doing?" No response. I kneel down beside him and say louder, "Cody what is the matter?" and grab his hand. His eyes move back and forth, but he doens't respond. Soon the dog is crawling all over him, which he hates and he is still not responding and his arm is limp. His eyes roll back into his head. I shake him a little and call for Ryan. His eyes roll back forward, but he still is not responding. I tell Ryan to stay with him and keep calling his name and talking to him. I go find the phone and realize I can't call 911! I am not in the US! So I get the find it guide and open to the first page where emergency numbers are. I go back to Cody and his eyes roll back again, Ryan is yelling, the dog is crawling all over Cody. I tell Ryan "Throw Lucy outside." then I yell for Tyler who is not hearing me. I dial the emergency number and tell them what is happening and then Cody's fingers start to turn blue and his face is white as a ghost and losing color. I get off the phone then dial Zach who doens't answer. Ryan is on the floor praying at this point "Please don't let Cody die." I tell him Cody is not dying, it has to be a siezure. I had learned about the different types in one of my classes and heard other parents tell of thier experiences. He was still with us, just not with us. By the time the fire dept. showed up Cody's color had come back and he rolled to his side. He laid there for a minute then went back on his back and his eyes rolled back again. They gave him oxygen and tried to get vitals, but the machine wasn't getting his pulse for some reason. We could feel a pulse.

They took him to the hospital here on base and did a good work up but found nothing. It's not uncommon for a short seizure like that to not show up in labs I guess. So we go see the pedactric neurologist on Monday and he will decide if he wants more testing, but like the ER doc said, kids may have one seizure and then never have another so that is our hope. It was still a very scary experience and not one I ever want to repeat! Zach followed the fire truck to our house not knowing it was coming to our house so he was trying to figure what had happened in the short time since he called.

I am afraid to let Cody play the Wii even though the doctor said that she does not believe that is the cause since he has been playing it with no problems for over a year now. Nevertheless the mom in me will be watching him like a hawk!