Seizure #6

As of this morning, (as far as we knew), LM had only experienced 5 seizures. One was a grand mal (the first one that lasted about 2-3 minutes) and the rest have been drop seizures that have lasted for 1-2 seconds. Because of this, we are having a hard time deciding if we should put him on medication or not. Five seizures in one year doesn't seem to warrant medication full time--and we don't want to medicate him just because we are afraid. Then today he had his sixth seizure. I guess we should have been expecting it after all we have learned this past week. But all of his previous seizures have occurred when he has been sick and had a fever. We just assumed that fevers were his trigger. Apparently not. We were at DH's brother's new house helping them move in. We had been there about six hours, and LM had been playing fine. He was actually playing Hide and Seek with his cousin E., and ran up to me in the kitchen, yelling at me, "Let's Hide!" He was bouncing around like he does when he is happy and having fun, then he kind of just stopped, looked out the window, seemed to relax, and then his whole body jerked and his knees buckled and he went down on the hardwood floor, hitting his head hard. He started crying immediately because of the bang to his head. My immediate thought was we can't do this to him--we can't let our indecisiveness put him through this again. We have to get him on medication so he doesn't fall and seriously injure himself. I feel totally and completely helpless. I know there are a lot worse things that people have to go through with their children--I've seen some of them while we've been up at Primaries--but honestly, this really STINKS.