Okay now that I got the last post out of my system (must have needed that today) – I will advance on to this topic.<\/p>\n
For quite some time I have been noticing that Ty has blank out spells. I know this can be common with kids so I wasn’t paying too much attention to it. I define a “blank out” by Ty being engaged in an activity and then halting, staring off into space. The incident that really caught my attention happened a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Me and the boys walked out of the house to get in the car. Usually Ty races for the car and tries to climb into the drivers seat saying “My drive my drive my drive” before I can put him in his car seat. This day was unusual. Ty stayed behind me (or so I thought). I opened the car, it seems I started it and turned the air on, put Tanner in his seat, buckled him in, and went to grab Ty. He wasn’t there. Hmmmmm…..<\/p>\n
I started looking for him and walked back towards the front door. He was standing 2 feet away from the door staring blank eyed at the street. I called him a couple of times to break his spell and then he giggled and ran for me like nothing out of the ordinary occurred. That was weird I thought. He had to have been standing there staring over a minute – probably more like two. <\/p>\n
After that day, I began noticing that Ty does this fairly often. Maybe everyday but usually not quite so long. I keep catching him staring off in the middle of rooms. <\/p>\n
Yesterday during PT, he did this twice to his therapist. I would estimate the first one was about 15 seconds. When I called him, he returned to awareness. I looked at Barb and said “He seems to be doing this a lot lately. He just blanks out.” Barb then shocks me and says’s “Doni – Ty might be having mild seizures.” <\/p>\n
WHAT????!!!!! I never considered that!!! I didn’t even know seizures could happen like that!!! I argued the point and said “No. I don’t think so. Usually you just say his name and he comes right back. He is probably just getting overstimulated for some reason and needs a little break. Other kids to this too sometimes.” Barb agreed that it could be nothing but she thought it was worth bringing to the neurologists attention. Unfortunately, the only way to know for sure would be to catch it on an EEG. (Note to Susie: I remember you had to do this with Landen and they sent him home on a monitor. He was so little then…do you think we could keep one on Ty at this age or would it never work?).<\/p>\n