The Last Two Days

Thursday morning Linda left for PB&J's house to babysit. Stacey fixed us pop tarts for breakfast and then she went to exercise in the study. I was in there surfing the net while she was on the elliptical exerciser. After she finished, she went to her room and I went into the bedroom to get dressed. I heard a light thud and yelled at Stacey to see if she was OK. No answer so I immediately went in to see what was going on. I found her sitting on the couch and beginning to have involuntary movements in her arms and facial muscles. I grabbed the bottle of Valium and gave her a 10mg at 10:05 AM and then set down to see how she did with that. I waited another 20 minutes and decided to give her another 5mg Valium Stacey began to show signs of being under control, so I called Linda at PB&J's house. She said she would be home as soon as Brent could leave work at school and get there to take care of Julie. Linda made the trip home and came in a little before noon. Stacey was laying in the bed with me beside her with my arm over her so I could tell if she had any more problems. Linda took over watching her for a little bit, while I took out the trash and fed Daisy. We continued watching Stacey the rest of the day. She was groggy from the Valium but no other seizure activity occurred
Friday morning Linda said Stacey was having problems again, so she laid down beside me and I once again placed my arm over her until I had noticed a couple of involuntary movements. We decided to give Stacey a 5mg Valium and see how she did. Her movements weren't as pronounced as they had been the day before. A few more occurred and then they stopped. She watched TV until time for lunch and wanted to go to Burger King for lunch, so we checked her out by seeing if she could dress herself. She did and was walking OK, so we went. She ate and seemed like she was back to normal after eating. After lunch, we decided to drive to the Dale Hollow Lake State Park and take a look at the new docks they are building in the cove. It is a monster set of boat docks, supposedly, enough room for 300 boats. It looks bigger. They are constructing a new dock store that is floating where the old docks were located, but I expect it to be moved out of that location and placed near the entrance to the cove for easy gas fill ups. There are docks being assembled in the parking lot and then carried by big fork lifts to the water, floated out and bolted together. If you've ever been to Jamestown dock on Lake Cumberland, the same company built and owns both. They resemble each other with maybe a different colored roof. It has been said, they are building a new ramp that will go straight out into the lake from the road. It is supposed to be only two lanes wide and this sucks IMO. The current ramp is about 5 lanes wide. This is the dock area we always used. It was free and excellent access to parking and the lake. I think parking will be a big problem now. We returned to the house and continued to keep an eye on Stacey. Jason sent her a bouquet of flowers and then called a little after 7 PM to see how she was doing. We missed having breakfast with him this morning and had called and told him Stacey was experiencing some problems. These problems occurred slightly off of Stacey's normal menstrual schedule and were not as bad as some have been. She's always surprising us. Just when we think we have a regular pattern figured out, she up and throws us a curve ball that we didn't expect. At least we are keeping her out of the hospital most of the time by giving the Valium as soon as we notice any signs of a problem. That in itself is a relief, because it is better on us to watch her at home than to set in the hospital all night.