Sick House

At least for me! I feel so icky right now! I can't breathe out of my nose, i have a headache, i'm hot. This is NOT very fun. for Quinn, her stomach is being dumb. Started yesterday with her begging me for food even after I just fed her! Sadly, this is the first sign that her tummy is being wonky. She hasn't pooped (that i know of) in 3 days. Last night, I pulled up to my sister's house, parked, turn towards Quinn in the back seat and witnessed yet another seizure. My poor kiddo! I HATE seeing her have seizures. It breaks my heart. You feel so helpless and there isn't anything you can do about it. She hasn't had a seizure since her meds were increased back in Jan/Feb and they were increased by a lot based on her weight. Well, Quinn hasn't gained any weight since then so i highly doubt we can go up on her seizure meds. Might have to try a new one out if anything else. She's also gagging and wretching a lot. This is a new symptom. I know a lot of children who have the same issues as Quinn deal with this all the time daily, but this is a new thing for Quinn to be doing this constantly so I think it's something that needs to be addressed to the doctor soon. Anything sets her off on a gagging/retching fit. She could just cough and suddenly go into a gagging episode for about 10-15 minutes. I'm pretty certain that her fundo is still intact due to the fact that she never throws anything up. so of course this is a good thing. One of the things that scares me the very most is that gagging is what set her off on a huge seizure back in January when she had to be admitted to the hospital for them. So, yeah i get flashbacks when she starts gagging. It's almost like i sit here and wait for her to collapse into my arms and go completely limp.

So this morning she came and woke me up and said to me, "Mommy, i think my stomach hurts." I asked her to point to where she was hurting and she pointed to the middle of her chest and to her left side. I got up, didn't feed her breakfast because she doesn't necessarily need it and i didn't want her to feel even ickier, so i got her a little bit of juice and she drinks it up. 10 minutes later, she is gagging and retching again. She says she thinks there's a frog in her throat <--- LoL! I'm sorry this is just cute how she tried to describe how she was feeling. If this continues throughout the weekend, i'm going to put a call into her GI doctor and find out how he wants to go about treating this. I'm going to go ahead and give her the "as needed" bowel meds and hope this helps her start moving things along. I'm REALLY hoping that she is not having another pseudo episode, but this path seems very similar to what we dealt with in June.