Abby in hospital yet again

After almost six lovely weeks at home with us, Nix took Abigail to our local hospital A&E this evening because of concerns that she has been fitting again. We’ve noticed over the last four or five days that she seems to have started having seizures again and have spoken several times with medical staff from Guy’s hospital about what to do. We spoke to them again today after several ‘cluster’ fitting episodes and neuro consultants there advised us to take Abby to A&E with a strict protocol to follow.

On arrival at the paediatric A&E Abby suffered a very severe epileptic seizure, the likes of which we haven’t seen since she was in intensive care at Lewisham hospital several months ago. Frighteningly, the crash team were called and doctors rushed to get an IV line into Abigail so that anticonvulsant medication could be administered. After a number of doses of different drugs, Abby seemed to calm down a bit but needless to say, she has been admitted tonight and Nix is staying with her for the moment. Unless this new cycle of fitting can be broken quickly, it’s our own judgement that Abigail could well be moved up to Guy’s again. I’ll update with more news tomorrow. The photo is of Abigail in the garden at Joshua's third birthday party just four days ago.