Our holidays were pretty uneventful this year! Our Christmas traditions normally consist of opening our stockings (each of us gets a new movie or two in our stocking, along with other goodies) and getting each other new pj's on Christmas Eve. So that night, we put on our new pajamas and curl up on the couch to watch a new movie. Then, on Christmas morning, we get up and open the other gifts. But since Christmas was on a Sunday this year we changed our plans a little. Our Sunday church service was an hour earlier than usual, so we thought that rather than get up super early and rush through our morning, we'd open everything on Christmas Eve so we could take our time. It was fun, but I have to say it felt a little weird, too...totally breaking tradition!
Sunday was nice, though. We picked up a pizza on the way home from church so I had the day off from cooking, which is always great! We stayed home, watched a movie, played with Parker and enjoyed our family time. Kyle's family got together that day but they met at his sister's home, which is about 2 hours from here. Most of them were staying there overnight, though, so we drove over on Monday morning to see them then.
New Years was kind of the same for us. Kyle and I were sick on Saturday--somehow we had both picked up a bad cold, so we didn't go out anywhere. Instead, we put Parker to bed then we watched a couple old movies. Oddly, they were both about married women who were plotting to kill their husbands so they could be with someone else. Kyle said he went to bed that night feeling a little uneasy... :)
I guess that sums up the past couple of weeks for us! Nothing too exciting, although we were okay with that, given that the weeks before Christmas had been a little stressful with Parker's seizure and being in the hospital. I'm sure everyone knows by now what happened, but we had the unhappy experience of finding out what a fibrole seizure is. Parker was walking around playing one minute, then laying on the floor having a seizure the next. I had no idea what was happening so I called 911. An ambulance brought us to the ER and it took a couple hours for Parker to come out of it completely and respond to any kind of movement or sound--it had the doctors pretty concerned. We were told that the seizures themselves are common but that the severity of his and the temporary paralysis it caused was not typical. Apparently a seizure normally lasts a few minutes, then the child is up moving around again and is fine. Because this wasn't the case with Parker, they did a CAT scan and x-rays to make sure there was nothing wrong. Thankfully, they all came back clear. Later they transferred us to the children's hospital where they kept him overnight to make sure he was okay. After a neurologist came to check Parker the next morning we were discharged, and he's been totally fine since.
And the fun part? It can happen again, at any time, until he's 6 years old. And there's no warning sign or way to prevent it. Scary! So we've been getting him back on a normal routine while trying to not be overly worried or protective...kind of a strange balance.
Anyway, the story does have a nice little ending... The week after it happened, we were sitting here at home and someone knocked on the door. Kyle answered it and I heard him saying something about Parker being home. I was curious as to who would be asking for Parker, so I walked out to see who it was. It was a guy and a woman from the fire department! They were two of the four paramedics who had responded to my 911 call. They had driven over, in their fire truck, to see if Parker was doing okay! They asked how he was and chatted for a few minutes, then they gave him a toy fire truck. How cool is that?! :)
SO thankful for our local fire dept. and paramedics! :)
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