Son In Hospital

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Hi everyone, My 15 yr old son is in the hospital. He has been epiliptic since birth. His seizures have never really been well controlled. Until Sunday a.m. he has not had a problem with status epilipticus for several yrs. When I got home from work Easter morning I found him in bad shape. Hubby said he had gotten him up with a hard seizure about an hour earlier but then seemed to be in his usual post ectal state. When I found him his AP was 150 and resps were 60 and very shallow, T 99.0 axillary. He was very cyanotic I listened to his chest with my steth and could here very loud moist gurgling in his left lobe. We called 911. By the time we reached our local ER they had to intebate him. They flew him by life flight to a bigger hosp. He came off the respirator this a.m. He is much improved but I am still worried. He is very confused and cannot seem to understand us or the staff. He speaks but not in complete sentences like he used to. When he does speak the words do not form a sentence so we cant understand him either. He gets very frustrated and extremely SOB. His resps are very erratic between 22 rarely to 44 fairly often. He is on O2 at 4ltr per nc. Whenever they try to turn it down his oO2 sat drop and they bump it back up. I am scared. Anyone have any thoughts. Oh yea very important detail. He did aspirate during one of the many seizures before arriving in Toledo. They did a procedure where they went down with a scope and tried to basically clean out the lungs. Left lobe atelectisis(sp) OK I think that is it, sorry this was such a long post.

Sorry to hear about your sons condition, your son & family are in my prayers dear lady....

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Specializes in Hemodialysis, Home Health.

I pm'd you, Angelbear.

My heart goes out to you. Perhaps Jayne can be a "shoulder" for you, if nothing else. She's one of thef the kindest. sweetest, most genuine people on the face of the earth. I know she'd be more than happy to be there for you.

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You have probable heard of this procedure. I watched it the other night on a health channel we have.

First I'd like to say you are in my thoughts and prayers.

On this show the you woman age 28 suffered seizures like your son when all else failed she elected to do this procedure.

She had brain mapping done. It was determined where the seizures started in her brain and she had surgery to remove that part of the brain. She has had no further seizures since then.

It was a wonderful documentary. Sorry I can't remember the name of the surgon or the hospital but it was in the United States. Perhaps your neurologist has heard of this

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You have probable heard of this procedure. I watched it the other night on a health channel we have.

First I'd like to say you are in my thoughts and prayers.

On this show the you woman age 28 suffered seizures like your son when all else failed she elected to do this procedure.

She had brain mapping done. It was determined where the seizures started in her brain and she had surgery to remove that part of the brain. She has had no further seizures since then.

It was a wonderful documentary. Sorry I can't remember the name of the surgon or the hospital but it was in the United States. Perhaps your neurologist has heard of this

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Angelbear, I'm sorry I'm not much help,but I'll be praying for your son!Praying for you and husband! Hoping the very best to your family.Lean on the Lord he will help you through! Tjjam

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Angelbear, I'm sorry I'm not much help,but I'll be praying for your son!Praying for you and husband! Hoping the very best to your family.Lean on the Lord he will help you through! Tjjam

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Specializes in Oncology, Cardiology, ER, L/D.

(((((((((((Angelbear))))))))

Please know you and your family are in my prayers, I can't imagine what you are going through right now. Please keep us posted and let us know about your son.

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Specializes in Oncology, Cardiology, ER, L/D.

(((((((((((Angelbear))))))))

Please know you and your family are in my prayers, I can't imagine what you are going through right now. Please keep us posted and let us know about your son.

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Angelbear, Prayers and good thoughts your way for your son and family.

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Angelbear, Prayers and good thoughts your way for your son and family.

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Specializes in LTC, Alzheimers, hospice.

My heart felt prayers goes out to you & your family.

I lost my 18yr old son 5 yrs ago he'd suffer with epileptic seizures since birth. I pray your son get the helps he need with advances being made. I also watched that discovery health program on brain mapping to control uncontrollable(sp) seizures but I just can't remember the names of the hospital or doctor. If the names comes to me I'll be back.

Let your son know there's a lot of prayers being said for him. Please keep us posted when you can.

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Specializes in LTC, Alzheimers, hospice.

My heart felt prayers goes out to you & your family.

I lost my 18yr old son 5 yrs ago he'd suffer with epileptic seizures since birth. I pray your son get the helps he need with advances being made. I also watched that discovery health program on brain mapping to control uncontrollable(sp) seizures but I just can't remember the names of the hospital or doctor. If the names comes to me I'll be back.

Let your son know there's a lot of prayers being said for him. Please keep us posted when you can.

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