A birthday trip to the ER.

  Wednesday night Jonathan took the nightlight out of the bathroom plug and stuck in a metal key.  He was shocked by the electricity, but other than a really hot hand that hurt, he seemed fine and went to bed.  The keys were left scorched and corroded though.  Thursday he was sorta out of it all day, even taking a very unusual mid-morning nap and not eating lunch.  That afternoon, while the other kids slept, he had a seizure.  Damon saw his eyes fixed to one side and he couldn't stop fluttering his feet.  He called 911 and an ambulance came.  The ambulance followed me down the street as I came home from Professional Development meetings.  After the paramedics assessed him, Damon carried him down to the ambulance, forgetting to even get his shoes.  I sent down clothes for Jonathan and shoes for Damon.  Too bad Johnny doesn't really remember the ambulance ride, he'd have loved it!  The ER doctor called me about an hour after they got to the hospital and asked for more information about his shock.  After that, I wasn't able to get in contact with Damon by phone again. 

 As this was all happening on Joe's 5th birthday, it changed our plans a bit.  Instead of having ribs with the missionaries, my parents brought pizza over to celebrate!  Joe and I compromised and said that he had wait to open gifts until everyone was done eating dinner, but he could open them before cake.  It took him an HOUR to finish his one piece of pizza because he kept asking to open his gifts!  Finally done, he opened his new Star Wars Naboo Starfighter and shirt.  We went to the park for a little bit of baseball and playing on the equipment.  Then the kids went over to spend the night and I went up to the hospital.

 Johnny and Damon had just been told he could be discharged when I got there and we just had to wait for the paperwork, so it was perfect timing!  They ate the pizza I brought them-it was 9:00 at night and they hadn't had any dinner and then we were home a bit before 10:00.  We picked up Elizabeth on the way since she wasn't going to sleep for Grandma. 

 Jonathan needs to follow up with a Neurologist, Cardiologist, and Pediatrician today and so will spend a bit of time at the doctors.  As long as he doesn't have other seizures in the future, the doctor's will attribute the seizure to the electric shock.  If he were to have more, then something else is going on.  He seems perfectly well today and is very eager to see Joe and the new space ship he got.  You'd never know what happened yesterday!