Scary end to our vacation

I had hoped that today I would be back at work, maybe posting a few fun photos from the wedding this weekend. Instead, I spent the past two days in the ICU at California Pacific. Natalie had her second febrile seizure (the first was back in May) Monday night. My stomach lurches when I think about that night. We had a great day and saw so much! The girls loved the sea lions at Fisherman's wharf and the beach. We went out for one last dinner before boarding an early flight the next day and Natalie was acting totally normal. All of a sudden we realized that she was staring fixedly at a point on the wall. She got terribly stiff and we realized what was going on. Andy ran her to the hospital because it was only a block away. The sweet man from the sushi restaurant even ran with us. Meagan was so scared, asking what we were doing and telling us to put her sister down. The worst part of the entire evening, by far, was the time in the ER. The doctors could not get her seizure to stop and they had to keep on giving her injections. Unfortunately, the nurses also could not get in an IV,so they had to do a direct line in her neck. My poor baby looks like a prizefighter, bruised all over. The ER transported her by ambulance to the Children's Hospital. By the time she got off of the ambulance, she was acting a bit more like Nati. Only Nati would sing "If you are happy and you know it" 5 minutes after a major seizure. The night in the ICU was challenging for me bacause Natalie had a paradoxical reaction to the Ativan given to her to stop the seizure. It was not unlike the reaction some toddlers have to Benadryl; she was all hyped up. She finally fell asleep around 5:00 AM. Our big concern yesterday was that she seemed very unstable and fell down over her own feet. Andy slept over with her last night and when she woke up she was a different kid. Illness has always come and gone very quickly with Natalie, so we are hoping this is an example of the same thing. Neurology had an EEG done, and it appears that she does not have Epilipsy, which is a relief. It is extremely hard for Andy and I as parents, though to know that this can happen at any time. We will be following up with our neurologist (we have one from when Natalie was diagnosed with hypotonia as a baby, but haven't seen him in a year or so) next week
Keep her in your thoughts and prayers.