Darren LeBlanc

I leaned over the edge of the familiar hard plastic railing of the hospital bed and moved closer to kiss Misty’s cheek. She hadn’t said much at all since the doctor gave her 2mg of intravenous Ativan, but this time she did. She whispered to me – ” I love you.” That somehow really did make it all a little bit better.

So, for the sake of good journalism, I’ll back up a bit and tell the whole story. Earlier tonight, Misty had a seizure. It lasted a little while until we gave her a nasal spray that aborted the seizure. Ok, so no biggie. She hasn’t had a seizure for a while, but a few months back, they were pretty commonplace. But then after dinner we had a little ad hoc prayer session….and in the midst of that, she had a another seizure which turned out to be bigger than the first.

We called her doctor and sure enough, once again, we end up in the Monmouth Medical ER. And tonight, we have the privilege of adding to our list of overnight hospital stays. We got here and did the routine CT scan(looked good) and blood work(results tomorrow) to check for internal bleeding and infection, etc. Then she got a shot of Ativan, which makes her completely delirious and sleepy…but its just about as effective as possible for seizure prevention. And with that, my dear misty was off to bed for the night. I am here with her in the hospital room at Monmouth. The staff is very nice tonight. They just went and dug me up this really nice recliner..

So without further adieu, I’m going to say goodnight and see just how comfortable this chair is :)