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oscar's life   Sunday, June 22, 2003 6:20 AM posted by Oscar   We had a terrible scare with Oscar last night. Yesterday he started running a fever and this morning he woke up at 6:00am having a seizure. Even though I had read all of the chapters on fevers in our baby books and knew that this sort of thing could happen, it was completely terrifying. The seizure lasted what seemed like an eternity (Christian said it was more like 5-10 minutes). When it finally stopped, Oscar was completely out of it and catatonic. We took him to the emergency room and about an hour after we got there his fever broke and he started to come out of it. He looked around the room and said "ducky" and "fishy" and we knew that he was going to be okay. The doctors said they couldn't find anything serious and reassured us that it was a "normal febrile seizure," that happens to 1 in 25 kids at some point during the first few years. They let him go home and he was pretty much back to normal by the afternoon, albeit a little cranky. I wish were so resilient--I still feel pretty shell-shocked by the whole episode. It really hit a nerve, given that we lost Soozie to seizure/brain problems. Christian was a model of calmness, though--very reassuring given that he is usually the one prone to overprotectiveness with Oscar. This afternoon he talked to both of his parents and found out that the same thing happened to him when he was right around Oscar's age. From here on out, we have to be much more vigilant about not letting Oscar's fevers get so high. Right now we're waking him up every three hours to pump him full of ibuprofen and tylenol.