3/15/13.... A scary day

Today I can only describe as one of the roughest of my life. Mac had been experiencing some high temperatures and intermittent seizures that were lasting a few minutes at a time. Each time Mac’s eyes would deviate toward one side and he would become unresponsive. This morning after the seizures began to increase in severity and number they decided to send him for another CT scan. Then they were getting ready to bring him down he began with another seizure. Only this time regardless of the medication they gave him they could not bring him out of it. His temperature spiked to 105. They had to intubate him to stabilize his breathing and sedate him. The scan showed no area of concern which put aside the fear of a major bleed or stroke. At this point they believe he has an infection causing the high temps. The high temps may be the cause of the seizures. They started an antibiotic and were able to get his temp down to 99.5. He continues with the breathing tube and remains sedated to rest comfortably. He will have an EEG overnight since there is no way to know if he has another seizure now that he is sedated. The doctors are hopeful Mac will not experience any long term effects from the seizures. We pray they can get the infection under control and put an end to these episodes.