A Mother's Faith

This Wednesday we experienced something that I pray no parent ever has to experience in their lifetime.

On Wednesday Titan woke up with a mild fever. Since he'd been teething for a few days I figured it was from that and gave him some Tylenol to bring it down. Like every other Wednesday I went off to work and my mom came over to spend the day with the boys.

Later that evening when I came home and checked his fever again it was 103! I instantly gave him some Tylenol and he continued to eat his dinner with grandma. A few minutes later he asked to be picked up and laid his head on my shoulder. My poor little man wasn't feeling good and I was more than happy to snuggle with him. As he lay there, he suddenly began to tense up and shake; he had a seizure. My motherly instinct kicked in and I knew instantly something wasn't right. I laid him in my lap and began to say his name. He was breathing and awake, but was not responding to his name. It was like his eyes were glassed over. Instantly my mom called 911. The 3 numbers you hope to never had to use for your kids (or anyone for that matter). I began to pray and continued to say his name. They instructed me to lay Titan down on the floor to cool him off and in the midst of all of this I needed to call Rory who was on his way home. I managed to say "Get home NOW! Something is wrong with Titan! I called 911!" (Looking back now a little more detail probably would have been good, but that's all that I got out in the midst of it all). As soon as I hung up with Rory I called Pastor Melinda. I needed someone in my ear who could pray, speak life and keep me calm and I knew she would do that. While I was on the phone with her Titan's lips began to turn blue and I noticed that his chest was not rising. He had stopped breathing. In that moment I could not remember infant CPR (its been a while...needless to say I will be taking a refresher course ASAP). Pastor Melinda told me to call 911 back and they would instruct me. So I did...I got as far as pinching his nose and THANK GOD he started breathing again.

Moments later 5 EMT's came through the door and began to help. They explained everything that Titan was experiencing and told me that he would be okay. Rory came in the door right behind them and I took a moment to check on Taber. He was curled up on the couch with my mom and with big tears in his eyes looked up at me and said “Something’s wrong with brother!” It broke my heart to see him so concerned. I comforted him and told him “brother” was going to be okay. They loaded us in the ambulance and took us to the ER to run further tests. When everything came back we found out that he had pneumonia which is what had caused the fever and the high fever had caused the fever seizure which apparently happens in 2-4% of children age 5 & under. Praise God there is no long-term side effects and we believe it will never happen again. The amazing part is that he had no other signs of sickness; no cough, runny nose...nothing! The nurse said he has a strong immune system (woo hoo!) After getting some medicine and instruction from the doctor we were sent home. Titan’s fever was down to 99° and he was back to himself, saying cheese for the camera and giving the doctor a high five.

I told Rory that night after we got home that in the midst of everything...the seizure, calling 911, the almost CPR....I had this amazing peace that everything was going to be okay. Even though every single scenario my mind could think of was running through my brain, I never even thought it an option for him not to be okay. Now don't get me wrong, it was incredibly terrifying, but I am so thankful for my mom, Rory and Pastor Melinda because each of them INSTANTLY began to pray for Titan. In fact, we found out later that night when we got home that one of the TRC pastors was in prayer. At the same time that Titan had the seizure, she was moved to intercession and prayed for an infant and that it would live and not die. How powerful!

I am incredibly grateful for all of our friends, family and Pastors who were in prayer for Titan. I can’t imagine having to go through the same scenario alone. I am so thankful that God protected Titan and our family.