It's 8:30 pm and Chris is finally still. This is a good thing because the seizures have decreased for now. I know you're thinking, "but he's in there to have seizures," but he was having them too soon after surgery, and he was having them just a few minutes apart. He's had 20 seizures in the 6 hours they've been monitoring him.
Today was a pretty rough day for Chris - after what he described as "the worst night of my life" last night, his pain level this morning rocketed to a 10 out of 10 while he was having an MRI. The MRI looked good, but he had to stay in ICU until about 1:30 so they could deal with the pain, nausea and vomiting that ensued.
After getting him hooked up to the EEG, the charge nurse was concerned that he was having seizures already. After calls to the neurologist and 2 doses of Ativan, they pushed some extra Keppra into his IV to try and stop the seizures. He is heavily medicated and pretty much unable to do anything but mumble a short word to the nurse when he's checked on. Right now, his body needs to rest for a couple days. Also, we want to avoid what's called "status epilepticus" where the brain can't stop seizing. This gives them no information, and can be quite dangerous. When Chris does have seizures, his brain needs to be at rest in between each one so the doctor can clearly see where the seizures begin.
Praying that he will sleep, sleep, sleep tonight with no seizures. In a couple days I'll be praying that he will have seizures all night, with a bit of rest in between.
Life's funny that way, isn't it?
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