Siezure in class the other day...

[Andurin]

Someone in my French class had a seizure the other day. I was wondering if I should put this up for the last couple days, then decided, meh, might as well, we need some sort of conversation material around here...

I was sitting in French class on a normal Thursday(or was it Wednesday or Friday? Sometime around the end of last week...), doing the usual: not paying any attention. We had a sub, which is a minor detail. Anyway, so, while not paying attention, there is suddenly a whole bunch of movement on the other side of the room. I look up, and see some of this movement, noting that the person moving, and the person next to her are the two Freshmen girls I would expect to play around like that. So, that is what I think, when suddenly the person yells that the moving person is having a seizure. Whilst she said this, the other girl flops onto her back on the chair, then rolls off with a heavy thud. Of course, every single person in the class is freaking out, and absolutely no one can remember what we learned in CPR. All we manage to do is move the desks away. The sub runs for the phone and calls emergency, while someone runs for the nurse, then two others follow the runner a couple seconds later. We see the girl on the floor, coughing out blood, which makes everyone freak out even more.

Well, it turns out that the emergency line wasn't picked up for a couple rings, AND it didn't even go to the nurse. It went to like the janitor or something. But, a minute or so later, the three kids who ran come back in, and the nurse follows in shortly. The students leave, when the nurse says so.

Scary, no? But, the good news is that she's completely fine.

And I feel like such a mean person... First thoughts that entered my mind when leaving the classroom was, "Aww... I have to leave my stuff in here..." And the second thought was that I left my pencil on my desk.

[pohatufan1returns]

...and the first thought that entered my head was "Gosh, I hope topics about physical tragedy don't take over the Misc. Topics forum."

Yep. I'm an insensitive wart.

[ImJessieTR]

CPR isn't going to be much help during a seizure. You guys did the right thing by removing all obstacles. The blood is most likely from biting her tongue. A soft backpack or something could be used for a pillow to make sure they don't crack their heads open. And don't feel guilty about those 'first thoughts' -- although you don't want them to delay your first aid response of course -- after all, you were surprised and it's not like you're a medical professional or anything. I'd be more upset if the nurse thought about stuff like that during an emergency.

Oh, and your school needs to have a better communication method with the nurse, maybe walkietalkies or something. I'd hate to know that my life depended on a phone that no one answers right away...

[RLRL]

Its time for another Lutz family story (yes its true, im related by blood to the Lutz from the Amityville horror and the real texas chainsaw massacre)!

When me and my siblings were very small my dad had an epileptic fitt in the night, my mum (whose a nurse) was working nights my brother (who was about 6 at the time) spent nearly the whole night next 2 my dad putting cold flannels on his head 2 keep him cool because all my brother knew was going on was my dad was shaking and getting very hot. It wasn't the first time my dad had had a fitt in his life as he is epileptic but still its kinda amazing that my brother essentially saved my dad's life that night...

[Nemesis]

My ex girl friend, now good friend, quite often has epileptic fits, due to stress. The best way to deal with it is to move everything that you can, and protect the head, donttry and withstrain them, it might make things worse.

When she comes around, she struggles to walk, cant remember things and in generally fagile. Its a horrible thing to have to live with.

[Blaziking]

Man... To think that something like that can happen to anyone at any time of day and night. And that sometimes it can be lethal.

Something like that happened to me when I was just a baby. Without warning I stoped breathing. My face went purple(which is obviously very strange). My Mum quickly started phoning for an ambulance because I had(and still have) a bad astma condition and me not breathing for just a bit could be the death penalty. But that stopped even before she could type in all the numbers.
And also my best friend had many siezures as a kid. He has some head problem, I don't know what It's called. Anyway, he must avoid being hit in the head(even though he fights all the time) and when he was small he had to avoid strong sunlight. That means that often when he went to the seaside he couldn't leave the hotel because of the sun.

Oh well, there is nothing anyone can do about all this...

[Coco]

A good friend of mine had a seizure in the middle of a game of warhammer in a gamesworkshop store (Table top wargame for those who don't know) I wasn't there but an ambulance was called and he was taken to hospital. Strange thing is that he has never had them before and has not had any since. Its a scary thing to see though, I once saw someone have one in the park next door to my house.

[Prof. Cinders]

The only thing similar to all this in my experience was my uninteresting story, and that of a classmate. I was born blue, not breathing, and with "little hope of survival". Well, obviously I'm ok now, but I had to have a ten minute operation on my little blue body. It turned out that the cord thingy had been wrapped around my neck before birth, choking me.

My classmate constantly faints randomly, and has bad asthma. Last time it happened she realised it was going to, asked to leave the classroom and fainted on the concrete pavement outside. Wasn't a pretty sight. Worst thing was, nobody realised until ten minutes later!