In July we went, and went, and went! We were never home! We had an amazing week and a half at the Gorge, a weekend at Bear Lake (which ended up quite dramatic and scary), and we also got our first camp trailer! Tyler's biological dad, Donald, gave us his older camp trailer. It was……disgusting! But for free, I knew I could fix it all up nice! My mom and I began scrubbing at 6 am, and cleaned our guts out ALL DAY! We then spent a whole other day refinishing the cushions. We bought cute fabric, and reupholstered the entire trailer! Then my sister gave us some extra wood flooring she had and some paint, and we laid wood floor and painted the inside! We even bought a brand new toilet J It's SMALL, but so cute and FUN! All the after pics are on my mom's computer so I will post them later...
BEFORE
and AFTER!
As for the Bear Lake trip, we had a fabulous weekend with Tyler's family, and were just getting ready to head home, but went back in to the cabin to say goodbye. As we were talking with everybody Jax started crying and acted like he had hurt his finger and came running towards me. I could tell that it hurt really bad and that he was going to hold his breath. The breath holding thing was his new development over the course of the summer, and he would make himself back out……so I grabbed him and tried blowing in his mouth to get him to breathe, and he didn't…..and finally passed out. As he passed out, and as myself and my mother-in-law start freaking out, he began convulsing like a seizure. After what seemed like an eternity of watching my baby boy with his eyes rolled back into his head, his lips purple, and his little body convulsing, he went completely limp. At this time pure panic set in by everyone. He still had not taken a breath, so we laid him on the floor with the intentions of starting CPR. Before we began Uncle Ben gave him a blessing while Grandpa Boyd was prepping for CPR. By the end of the blessing he wheezed a small breath. The greatest sound I have ever heard in my entire life! After his small breath he started moving and taking more breathes, but was completely delusional. He couldn’t hold his head up, was still limp, but was also trying to raise his arms. He would be sound asleep one second, and then crying the next. Something wasn't right, and we were still so scared. The ambulance had been called long before the blessing, so now it was just a waiting game. The ambulances come clear from Montpelier, and it felt like an eternity for them to get there. When they got there, I rode with Jax in the ambulance, and Tyler drove our car over. While in the ambulance Jax was completely out. He literally could not even open eyes or lift a finger he was so weak. It broke my heart! On our ride, I called Steph, because she only lives half hour from Montpelier, and asked her to meet me at the hospital because I was so scared! After a long ER trip, lots of tears, lots of nurses, and an interesting MRI scan of the brain, the doctor pretty much told us the seizure was a fluke. One of the scariest moments of my life, and all they tell me was "who knows"! Talk about frustration. That night, we drove all the way to Evanston, and didn't get there till about 1:30. We had Jax sleep with us because we were too scared not to have him right next to us, and woke up early the next morning and called Dr. DaPalma. She got us right in, and as soon as I told her everything that went on she knew exactly what happened. They are called crying spells. Apparently it is very common. When a child holds their breath long enough to pass out, they will often times seize. It looks like a real seizure, but does not affect the brain like a real seizure does, it is just the body reacting to being low on oxygen. She also assured us that it will probably happen again, and that although it looks as though they are not breathing while convulsing, they do. So we are just supposed to lay him flat on the ground and watch it happen! She also said that it completely exhausts their bodies when it happens, so the sleeping and lethargic actions are also completely fine and normal.
With all this, we just hope it never happens again! It was absolutely traumatizing! I still have nightmares… but we are so glad that what happened is normal and does not harm him and that he is still healthy!
