Tuesday, August 18, 2009

When Errands turn into a disaster

Yesterday I had some errands to run. As everyone knows, Bree can not be left home alone. And besides, she wanted to come along. So even though she didn't feel well she came with me. Typically these errands wouldn't interest a teenager. Take the trash off, run to the drug store and Walmart. I decided to take her out to lunch and we ate at a buffet style restaurant. Bree ate a very good lunch. Everyone knows by now that we struggle to get her to eat sometimes - but yesterday faced with so many choices - she saw many favorites and she loaded her plate up with healthy ones. She ate pinto beans, okra, baked fish, carrots, a baked sweet potato, and a piece of cantaloupe. She ate a piece of lemon meringue pie for desert. She did very well and we are all proud of her. It was after we left the restaurant that the day went downhill. She had a seizure outside in the parking lot and when she fell on that hard pavement she skinned up her leg and arm. Even so, once she regained consciousness she insisted she wanted us to continue the errands, she didn't want to ruin my day. We put bandaids on the worst scrapes and headed on to Walmart. But as she always is after her tonic-clonic seizures she was confused. She saw someone who looked like her biological mother and she had a major panic attack. Poor girl.
Today, she jokes a little about the seizure, says it's because her body wasn't used to so much food at once and didn't know what to do. She still doesn't feel well but is helping me clean some around the house. She's such a good girl. She is spending a lot of time with her sisters Allie and Lindsey since they start school tomorrow. She is sad about that because she will be lonely when Allie and Lindsey go to school tomorrow and she is the only kid left at home. I am nervous about Lindsey since we are mainstreaming her again and that was such a disaster last year. Bree is wishing she was able to go to school again, too. The doctors are telling me if we don't get her seizures under control soon that she could decline even further mentally and cognitively.

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