You know how you have people in your life whom you admire from afar, sometimes letting it slip that you’re madly in love with their talent?
That’s how I feel about Megan. She and I aren’t necessarily best buds or even talk on a regular basis. But I know her, I’ve had dinner with her, and since I started this whole blogging thing, she was one of the first blogs I read with regularity. I have a feeling she likes me, too.
Megan’s blog, Velveteen Mind, is one of those places you go when you want to read with your heart. She doesn’t blog often, and if she did, I don’t think her writing would be as cherished as it is when she does post. I’m probably wrong in that assumption though, because someday soon, she’ll publish a book that wins awards and is a part of required high school English reading.
And I’ll admit, there are some things she writes that takes me a few times to understand because it’s just that intricate and cerebral and well-woven.
But she can’t be too cerebral because she’s in my circle of people. Lordy knows you can’t be too smart and be in my circle of people.
I’m telling you about my girl-crush on Megan because she wrote something that needs to be shared and read by as many people as possible.
A few weeks ago, she shared with her social networks that her daughter, Iris (seen below in her belly, standing next to Heather’s belly with Annie), was having seizures and she asked for prayer and healing energy. The story of what exactly happened and how she saved her own daughter’s life is written at length and with great maternal care on Megan’s blog: I Heard God Laugh. And It Sounded Like Screaming.
As parents and responsible adults, when there is something to learn that could save a child’s life, it’s up to us to share it so that even just one little life is saved.
This is my chance to share what Megan has learned in hopes that someone who reads her daughter’s story will recognize the signs of a Febrile Seizures when the time comes and save a life.
Go read it, love on Megan, and hopefully she won’t run screaming from me for revealing my lust for her written words.
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I have to say this for my own sanity, but the VAST majority of febrile seizures are non-life threatening. The OVERWHELMING majority. They are not tremendously uncommon. I have several friends who have children for whom febrile seizures have happened to, more than once.
I appreciate the reach this story has gotten, and I really appreciate Megan’s experience and retelling, but what I don’t want is people to automatically panic, lose their cool, and put themselves and their kids in greater danger by doing so, and assuming that it will always be life-threatening. For them to be so is statistically extraordinarily rare.
I was just coming to respond when I saw Megan actually said it better than I was going to, which is clearly a whole other point. That woman, she has a way with words.
What I responded to Megan (below) was that yes, seizures themselves are not necessarily dangerous, but it’s the whole of the story that we should be aware of warning signs and act accordingly.
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I have to agree with Jonniker. It’s not the seizure itself that is dangerous, it’s what we are seeing repeated over and over in response to my post: stories of children stopping breathing during the seizure. And even that is not common.
In and of itself, the seizure doesn’t appear to damage the brain. Of course, this didn’t help me that day. And wow, do I ever not recommend driving yourself to the hospital. All of that is part of the point of telling the story.
And part of the point of sharing the story. Which you have done generously, Angie. I don’t know where to start. Just thank you. You can stalk me every day.
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YES, thank you. I may have missed the point in my telling of why people should read your story. It’s not the seizures themselves that can be dangerous (though they can be, depending on all sorts of factors), it’s the whole of the story and being aware of your children and how to help them.
And I’ll continue to stalk you from afar in a very non-creepy way.
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Jonniker made a good point. I’ve got experience dealing with seizures when I was a babysitter, and most of the time they are pretty harmless.
Anyhow good post, Angie.
-Corey
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