Brain Seizure

I noticed that Rebecca had an altered state of mind Wednesday morning. I check her medicine and noticed she had not taken all her medicine the last two days. I have been complacent with ensuring she was taking her medicine. Up until now she has been real disciplined in taking her medicine. She fills out a daily log indicating what, how much, and when she takes her medicines. She has been taking two 150 mg of Lyrica twice a day. Every once in a while she only takes one a day. She took one on Monday and that was in the evening and that was the last one she took. There was no daily log for Tuesday so I assume she did not take any medicine on Tuesday. Her last dose of oxycotin was 160 mg Monday morning. She normally takes 160 mg three times a day and 30 mg of oxycodone three times a day. I did get her to take 80 mg of oxycotin and 30 mg of oxycodone on Wednesday morning. She would not communicate with me. She would answer yes when I ask her to take medicine or a drink of water but then not do it.


I took her to the ER at 3 PM on Wednesday. They basically didn’t find anything and we finally got to a room in the hospital at 3 AM on Thursday. At about 2 PM they connect an EEG system. Then the neurologist came by about 6:30 PM and said they were going to put her in NICU. He said she was having brain seizures based on the EEG they did earlier in the day and the one connected at the time. Before they got her moved to the NICU she had a brain seizure. To me it looked pretty severe. I think it lasted about 5 minutes. She then quickly got moved to the NICU. Visitation is limited to four 20 minute periods a day. My daughter and I saw her last night at 8:30. She was calm and did not appear to recognize us. She didn’t say anything and didn’t open her eyes.

At 8:30 this morning I thought she was a little more responsive. When I mentioned our daughter’s name she half opened her eyes for a half second. I said “I love you” and she said the same thing back. This was the first words I heard her say since Tuesday evening other than a nod and yes and no.

I am going to go see her at 8:30 this evening. This is a little scary. I hope we get her back.

They are only giving her some anti seizure medicine and some antibiotics. Her potassium was low and they gave her some of that. They are not aware of any withdrawal problems from the oxycotin/oxycodone or other pain so they are not giving anything for that. In her state I wonder how they can tell she is not having any withdrawal symptoms. I guess it would be good if she is not having any pain to get off the pain drugs. She has been on it for nearly two years.