My oldest son woke up one night screaming bloody murder and was violently shaking. After half an hour he was still shaking and he vomitted so I took him to the emergency room.
No fever. No rash. No redness. No breathing troubles. Urine and fecal samples ok. Many hours later…. Still violently shaking.
They said they had run every test they could think of and he was totally healthy so there was only one left… Spinal tap. I needed to hold him for this. I cried. You could feel the pain and terror in his little body. Then they decided he needed a brain scan but needed to wait for him to be so tired he'd go to sleep and wouldn't freak out in the tube. He finally fell asleep and they could do their scans. He woke up in there screaming in terror. I cried. They opened it up and I held him and he was shaking worse than before.
This was day 2.
In all of Las Vegas there was 1 pediatric neurologist. The man was stretched thin and took a long time to see, even in somewhat of an emergency situation like mine. A regular neurologist came in at the pleading of a kind nurse to tell me children's brains and adults are different and he wasn't confident enough to give an opinion but the pediatric doctor was a genius and assured me he'd know what to do.
When he finally came, he looked my son over and then opened the folder and looked at whatever was in there again. Glared at it. Asked for some counts on some tests and looked at me and said “your son is a very healthy boy with night terrors.”
I cried. Lol.
It was a bad experience and emotionally exhausting but I knew what it was and I knew he was healthy.
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