And here we go again!

Yeah, so I am sure you can tell by the title of this post, you know where this is going. Last Tuesday, Lily broke her streak. She had been almost seven months without a hospitalization. Well, that night she and I went to be. She fell asleep and was sleeping peacefully when she sneezed twice in her sleep. THAT was all it took. Eyes wide, frozen in place. She was a having a seizure, a status seizure. Diastat stopped it but since it had been so long since her last status off to the ER we went. They kept her over night, but as usual by like 4:00 am she was back to her normal self. If was a quick one, a bit different from here others, but it seems like she rarely has the same presentation every time.

Taz did alert and yes, I mistook it for him trying to get attention. Oh denial is an awful thing. lol Right before Lily fell asleep he was up on the bed standing over her. He NEVER stands on the bed. If he wants to get across the bed, he crawls. But we were playing with the cat, so I thought he was just being jealous. NOPE. One of these days I will actually believe him.

I know a great deal of it was that I didn't want to believe that that was what he was doing. After all it had been so long and I really had my hopes on that they were gone. I was a big old cry baby mess by the time the EMT's got here. But i am happy to report that I didn't and have not fell into the normal depression I get after she has a seizure that lands her in the hospital. At least that's progress on my part!

So they upped her nightly dose of Lamictal, doubled it actually. Also they told me to give it to her earlier. I was giving it to her at bedtime but now I have to give it to her at least an hour before bed. These Dr's crack me up. I have been told that the meds have to build up over time in the system to work, but now it's an on demand thing? lol I wish they would just say "Hey we aren't sure which it is so make sure you give it to her early enough so that it will have time to get into her system before she goes to sleep!" lol

In other news, Lily will be starting Kindergarten in the fall and Taz will be going with her. She is really looking forward to going and I think she has no clue how popular she is going to be, being the kid at school with a dog. I wonder how many Kindergarteners are going to tell their parents they want to take their dogs to school too? ;-)

As always, thank you for reading!