Scary Moment, Happy Ending

Some of you have already heard, but we had a scary moment with Matthew on Monday night. He had been fine all day, and we were getting ready to go to a staff party. I was in the playroom with him, and he suddenly stiffened up and fell flat on the ground. I went over to him, and picked him up. His whole body was limp and he was not responding as I said his name. I told Karina to call 9-1-1, and I continued to try to get Matthew to respond. Within about a minute, Matthew vomited and then began to respond. The paramedics were there within about 5 minutes, and within 10 minutes Matthew was pretty much back to his old self, fully responsive.

Matthew and I went to the ER in an ambulance, and Karina and Jack met us there. Matthew got progressively better over the next two hours, and by about 8:00pm we were home. The ER doctor basically let us know that Matthew had a Fibral Seizure, which means that his temperature spiked really rapidly, and his body responded by seizing. Right now there is no reason to believe that this will be ongoing, but we will need to be especially vigilant to keep Matt's temperature down anytime that he is sick.

So, it was pretty scary. We're grateful, though, that Matt is back to acting normally (at least how he normally is when he is sick).