It had been 46 days without any seizures until 7:24am on the morning of December 14th when Brady had a grand mal. It lasted for 2 or 3 minutes and he came out of it fairly quickly. He seemed fine once it was over, ravenous, but otherwise fine. He is always ravenous afterward. I gave him 5mg of oral valium once it was over.
At 7:55am, 30 minutes after the first one, had another grand mal, which again lasted 2-3 minutes. This time I gave him a valium suppository (34.7mg) before he was up on his feet. At 8:10am, only 15 minutes from the second seizure, he had a third grand mal seizure which lasted 2-3 minutes. I gave him another valium suppository before he was up on his feet. After the third seizure he seemed much more uncoordinated than usual but within an hour's time he was okay.
At 8:40am we took him to Dr. Slayman; however; he stayed in the car with Jeff. She didn't feel the need to see him. And thank God he didn't have any further seizures. She directed me to increase the Potassium Bromide to 900mg from 600mg for 10 days and then to put him on a maintenance dose of 750mg once per day. We were instructed to leave the phenobarbital at 97.2 twice per day.
During my conversation with her that morning she asked me how I would feel about taking Brady to a neurologist and my answer was that I was definitely all for it!
I would have gone that day if possible. Her response was that I more than likely wouldn't be able to get in to see the specialist until after the first of the new
year. Once we were home I called the neurologist's office and she had a available appointment the very next day on December 15! Wow! I know that no one other than God had a hand in this! I am so thankful that we would be seeing a doctor who specializes in neurology, not to mention the fact that we were getting in right away. For the first time in quite a while, I felt very hopeful!
Brady did well throughout the rest of the day on December 14th, but unfortunately suffered another grand mal seizure that night at 10:27pm. This made 4 seizures that day! We were starting to get terribly worried by now. Once the seizure was over and before he was up on his feet I gave him a valium suppository and 2 phenobarbital pills (64.8mg). Finally, we were all able to settle down and went to bed to see if sleep would come.
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