Dear Friends,
Many of you will remember a year
ago (almost to the day) Jordan had a couple seizures (you can read the blogs
about it here
and here).
It was a very scary time in both of our lives as the doctors did multiple tests
for tumors and other causes of seizures. The doctors found nothing and
determined that most likely Jordan just had a couple random seizures, as some
people do, once in a lifetime. To be safe the doctors prescribed Jordan anti
seizure medicine for a year.
Well a year had come and gone;
Jordan and I got engaged and married; we had come home from our honeymoon, and
Jordan was almost out of seizure medicine. We called his neurologist who said
it was time for Jordan to wean off the meds. Jordan (and I) were very excited
to be done with the medicine, the side affects of the medicine, and just the
hassle of it all.
Almost two weeks into weaning off,
four days from being done, on a Wednesday night/Thursday morning (Sep 5/6) at
about 3 in the morning I awoke to Jordan shaking. When I realized he was having
a seizure, I was overcome with emotion. I didn’t know what to do or how Jordan
was going to feel. However, when he woke up, he had absolutely no memory of
anything. In fact, he was googling reasons why his tongue would be sore (he bit
it during his seizure). After I told him what had happened, we spent some time
talking, crying, and praying. All we knew was that this wasn’t a surprise to
God.
Jordan decided to stay at home from
work and was going to call the neurologist when he got into his office at 10 (8
am Spokane time). However, before we called the neurologist Jordan had another
seizure. This time he bit his tongue bad enough to draw a significant amount of
blood. At the time I didn’t know it was his tongue, so I called my parents who
were eating lunch on our side of town. They came over and helped me clean up
while I called the neurologist in Spokane to ask what I should do. He informed
me that I needed to give Jordan four of his anti-seizure pills and keep him
updated.
After giving Jordan the pills, I
left him with my mother so that I could run to Walgreens and refill Jordan’s
prescription. While I was there Mom called to tell me Jordan had another
seizure. I rushed home to find Jordan sitting on the couch, stable, but very
out of it. I tried to talk to him for a while, but he was unresponsive. I
helped him walk back to the bedroom to lie down. I then called the neurologist
again to see what I ought to do, only to find out that the neurologist was on
lunch break for another hour. I then sat beside Jordan, rubbed his back,
prayed, and read scripture over him. I thought he had fallen asleep when he suddenly
got up. I thought he was rolling over, but then quickly realized he was having
a fourth seizure. At this point I decided that we needed to get him to the ER.
Once we got Jordan to the ER, the
staff gave him an IV with his seizure medicine. After they believed he was
safe, they sent him home. Since then Jordan has been doing better. We are
currently on a temporary health plan, and once we transition into better
insurance we intend to pursue the process of figuring out what could be causing
these seizures.
We would really appreciate your
prayers. Pray that we continually trust God and grow even closer to Him through
these circumstances. Pray for safety for Jordan. Pray for financial provision.
And finally pray that God will be glorified in how we respond to what God
allows into our lives.
