Katie

This is Katie, aka Fbk Sparkles, aka Goofee, aka PMS Goofee Katie came to me last night around midnight and said "Mom, my arm keeps shaking". Low and behold, theres her hand and arm twitching and shaking uncontrollably. I said "Take long deep breaths, relax and go to bed". Basically, I blew her off. She gets up the today, gets her school stuff together, takes three Advils (moms cure for everything) and goes to school. Still with the arm shaking. She doesnt even make it through first period. They have to call a zillion times to wake me, I of course having been up till 5 am with H3. I take her to my emergency room where I work and the attending doc on happens to be a very skilled neurologist. By 1130 am the spasms involve her right leg as well, even while she was snowed and asleep from the Ativan. Got an MRI, no tumor or anything like that. So shes transferred to a facility that has pediatric neurologists. Shes still snowed from the Ativan and the Depekote, which seemed to have NO effect on the seizure actiity whatsoever. They are talking possibly a neuro-psyche disorder, or copper toxicity, or strep A residual effects, or Simple Partial Seizure disorder. Tomorrow is the big work up day.


My usual reaction........WTF