Sooo, it was a little bit frantic around the birthday party not only because of the party itself, but because Edda went into a seizure cluster starting on on Friday night and lasting until Monday morning. So she had a total of six seizures which were: Friday pm, Saturday early am and also 15 minutes before the party, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning and Monday morning (her birthday! boooo.). So we did administer rescue medications on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. I would have given it on Saturday morning, but I didn’t want her to be asleep for the entire party. She did not have a seizure during the party (thank goodness, I was most worried she would have one while we were singing happy birthday) and also, this time she did not bite her tongue (like last September when I had to take her to the ER and get a tube down her nose). So she was able to keep eating and drinking between the seizures.
Since she had a seizure on Monday (almost right when the bus pulled up to the house), we kept her home that day just in case. But I could tell that the seizures were waning in strength and by Monday afternoon, she was back to herself just in time to celebrate her actual birthday with a nice dinner, champagne and ice cream, kindly provided by the Strickers in Austin! I had not heard of this brand of ice cream before, it was exciting and Edda was thrilled as were we.
We found a bottle of champagne that we had in the fridge and popped the cork and poured for us all.
And we opened the gifts from the party! Many, many were amazing shirts from people’s favorite bands. So fun!
Oh dear. I hope she’s OK from those seizures. Bless her heart. Yours too that’s gotta be so darn scary. Give her a kiss on the head for me please