The hammer fell five times this morning
Seeing as how Stacy did not turn in for bed until well after midnight last night and has not been maintaining a good sleep schedule for at least a couple of weeks, I’m guessing that long term sleep deprivation is to blame. Stacy had five (5) tonic-clonic/grand mal seizures this morning:
5:55 am
6:50 am
7:20 am
7:57 am
8:22 am
9:12 am - no seizure, but woke up puking mostly saliva and mucus. She went back to sleep without further incident (so far).
The seizures were all short in duration:
- Convulsions for roughly 20-30 seconds
- Almost non-existant complete shutdown phase (less than a second)
- Resumption of labored breathing for 2-5 minutes before sleep
As far as I know, she has been taking her Dilantin on schedule. She has never had that many TC/grand mal seizures in one day for as long as I’ve known her.
June 1st, 2005 at 10:02 am
Stacy was pretty wiped out yesterday from the seizures. She slept most of the day with a headache and a strong sense of nausea. She puked several times and was not able to eat much.
She did manage to take her Dilatin last night, but she had another TC seizure at 2:32am. Fortunately she only had one.
She did roll out of bed this morning and eat some breakfast. She has low energy though and is napping again. We are contacting her doctor now.
November 28th, 2005 at 11:21 am
[...] am, 7:54am and 8:52am. Then she slept most of the day (Monday). This was very similar to what she experienced back in May. Around 5pm she was up and about, lucid and alert although tir [...]