We had a crazy 36 hours. Thursday morning at 9AM Michelle was giving Joshua a tub. The doorbell rang and Michelle left the bathroom to answer it and found Joshey's speech pathologist at the door. The converstaion was a brief one (1-2 minutes) and Michelle had to interrupt her in order to attend to Joshua (we hardly ever leave him alone in the tub un-attended). When Michelle returned to the bathroom from the door, Joshua was having a seizure under water.
She pulled him out of the tub and laid him on his side - a mucus discharge came out and he began breathing again. He wasn't breathing up to that point at all. He continued seizing for about 10 minutes while coming in and out of his seizure (clustered). Michelle moved him to the couch and he vomited up more bath water, but was breathing. Because his seizure was in clusters, he didn't get his diastat right way. After he came out of the seizure and was breathing on his own, we brought him to the ER.
The doctor observed him and looked at his X-rays and informed us that Joshua nearly drowned. I can't describe what that felt like - to know that we almost lost our boy. We're not sure how long he was under the water, but the doctors thought it to be under a minute. Had Michelle not cut her converstaion with Candie short, Joshua might not be with us today.
I stayed the night with Josh in the hospital on Thursday so they could monitor him. It was a long night as he was quite uncomfortable. The doctor explained it was like swallowing water wrong and having it go down the wrong pipe. The lungs get inflamed and breathing is laborious.
Well, they sent him home today and he is doing better, but he'll be recovering for a while until all of the inflamation in his lungs has resided. We thank God that he is OK and with us at home again. We covet your prayers for his speedy recovery.
These past 36 hours were horrific. Thank God Josh is OK.
