Sunday, January 8, 2006 1:41 PM CST

It's been a long time since Aidan has had two medical updates in a week's time! (see journal history for earlier entries).

Friday afternoon Aidan had a mild seizure. I think it was what they call a "partial seizure". He did not lose consciousness or become complete unresponsive. Rather, he started staggering around the living room, talking incoherently, and then leaned against the couch, gagging and retching. I helped him get on and he told me "I'm going to sleep" but the focus of his eyes started to drift upwards and to the left, which is what has happened in former seizures.

I brought him upstairs, trying to talk to him and keep him in the picture. He was shaking but not jerking the way he has in former seizures. Upstairs, he started talking and acting more clearly, and then fell asleep immediately and deeply, still with a dirty diaper (he had become incontinent during the seizure).

I called the pharmacist and he said that one of Aidan's antibiotics can sometimes cause seizures. So I called the doctor, the "hospitalist" at the hospital where Aidan had stayed. He thought under the circumstances, since the antibiotics were mostly a precaution anyway, that we should discontinue them.

Since then Aidan has been acting great. He ran a low temperature that night, but not since then. He still has a cold -- but we all do. His breathing has been great. In fact, Brendan's "sats" are lower than Aidan's -- Brendan's are hanging out in the low to mid 90's, and Aidan's are in the mid- to upper -90's -- great considering that we are at over a mile-high altitude.

Today Aidan is coming down with us to take his oldest brother Liam to the train station to return to college. We are not looking forward to that!