Monday, April 14, 2008

My scariest moment so far...


Ok. It is official. Parenting is scary. Yesterday started off like any other day. I went to church and had a great lesson for my sunbeams then came home. Andrew and Emily went to a neighbor's house to play. A few hours later, the phone rings. I wasn't near the phone so I let the machine get it. Someone left a super long message. I broke away from my book (A New Moon) to go investigate. I get to play back this message. It is a panicked voice saying that there is an "emergency with your boy. He's not breathing..get over here. The ambulance is on the way." Repeated over and over. I screamed at Erik to get over to the neighbor's house. NOW! I didn't even see Erik..I just felt the wind blow by and heard his car race away. (he got there before the ambulance..all his auto-cross experience paid off) I quickly called my friend and she told me he was breathing now. I told her Erik was on his way. I got Ryan in the car and we went to find out what happened. I was expecting to find Andrew having a popsicle because he had choked and was fine now. That is not what we found. There was a group of people gathered around the house, a fire truck, an ambulance, and police cars. I knew it was more than choking. That was horrible knowing this was all for my child. I found out that Andrew had been playing just fine and suddenly just collapsed on the ground and started shaking. Luckily the dad had just walked into the room where they were playing. He scooped him up and called to his wife (who is a nurse). She said he was completely limp and turning blue fast. Emily said she caught him as he fell so he would not hurt his head. Emily also added that he looked dead. Lisa did the rescue breaths and CPR. His airway was fine and clear. He started to pink up a little and had another seizure. I rode in the ambulance with him. He was completely out of it. I just kept asking questions and trying to figure this whole thing out. Erik followed behind the ambulance. They gave Andrew a CAT scan and did blood work. Everything was fine which is good news. Over the next few days we get to go back to the hospital and have tests done to try to figure what triggered this and hopefully find out how to keep it from happening again. I also get to be on pins and needles wondering if this is going to happen again soon. Today he is acting like the same old Andrew. He says the worst part of yesterday was taking the tape off from the IV.

3 comments:

Carol said...

Yikes!!!

Wow, I'm glad he was okay!!! I hope you guys figure out what caused it so you can prevent it from happening again.

Cynthia said...

Oh my gosh, that is so scary!!! I don't know what I would do in that situation, I would be so freaked out. I'm glad he's doing better, and hopefully the dr.'s can figure out what's going on. Poor kid. Hang in there.

Cynth

Mark and Tara Christiansen said...

I am so sorry. I can't imagine anything worst than having something wrong with one of my children and not knowing what it is. We will be praying that the Doctors find out what was wrong with Andrew soon and all is well.