6/16/2021

I didn’t want to post this all on Facebook or Instagram because it is traumatic, but I would like to keep the blog updated for what has been going on.

On June 13th, we were driving home from Virginia for 8 hours and he drove 5 hours and a could of times told me he was feeling anxious and I just talked him down. Then I took over driving and it happened like 3 more times where he was getting goose bumps and said he was anxious. So I had him take his meds like 2 hours early for the night and made sure he was drinking lots of water. When we got home, we unloaded my car and were unpacking and he said he was still so on edge. Then I knew something was weird when he started saying Yankee Doodle was stuck in his head and I laughed because I first thought it was silly, but he was genuinely panicked over it. So I sat him down and got him some water and just had him take some deep breaths. Then he said he was nauseous and ran to the toilet and threw up A LOT. He stood back up and said he was still feeling so anxious and I called his brother to talk to him with me to try and talk him down. And that’s when he dropped on his knees and his neck went to the side so far and fast and his eyes were rolling back over and over and arms out straight and his wrists were in the weirdest shape. He was still talking though and saying like “I’m here god please help me” and I hung up on his brother and called 911 and he was still convulsing but I was able to sit him down on the ground. After they said they were on their way, I called his brother back and josiah stopped convulsing for the most part but eyes were still rolling back. He wasn’t making any sense. Then started projectile vomiting all over the bathroom floor. After the paramedics came in and put him on the stretcher, they put in 2 IVs and gave him some strong seizure medicine. I followed my car out to where they were and they were strapping him in and he was convulsing again. I was screaming and just hysterical. But after about 10 minutes they let me go in the emergency room with him thank God, and they gave him fluids and more medication. At this point it was around 11:30am. At one time when they were asking him all the basic questions in his assessment, he said it was November 2013. He couldn’t remember so many things. But he knew I was there and stuff which I was glad. They did blood tests and urine tests, and the only thing that was off was that his sodium was pretty low. They chose against doing a MRI that night because he had one less than three months ago. He finally became more coherent and we were discharged at 4:30am.

He has still has spells of anxiety and we are not sure why, but he will get goosebumps with it and it freaks both of us out because it’s what was happening a lot before the bad seizure. The neurologist upped his seizure medications and he will have his next MRI soon.

If I can ask for anything at all it would be prayers for healing, and that josiah is able to be relieved of his anxiety spells. Thank you all 💗