UPDATE

Dear Friends....First,,,THANK YOU for your prayers!!!! We have needed them and felt them. SECOND....Hudson has finally come around and seems to be fine. I will re-cap on what happened.

We typically drive straight thru from MN to TX but were not in a hurry and decided to spend the night in Kansas City and take the kids out for a nice dinner on the Plaza. We loaded up and left the hotel about 8:30 this morning. Hudson was fine, talking, laughing, etc but a bit cranky...nothing unusual as he had been up late the night before. I did think he looked really pale but.....not much thought to it. He was asleep within minutes. About 30 minutes down the road we stopped at a drive thru for breakfast. He didn't wake up, again, no big deal...Jordan and Madi were both sleeping too. About 10 minutes later back on the road I heard him moving and turned to check on him. He was turned to his left and appeared to be straining to see out the back side window...I said "Hud, what are you looking at"...he didn't respond, just kept staring out the window....Kailee then asked him if he wanted some hot chocolate and he shook his head "no"...he did have a sort of blank look on his face but again....Looking back on all of it now I KNOW he was starting to have his seizure then...

SO.. about 40 minutes down the road I turned to look at him (he was in his car seat between the girls). IMMEDIATELY I knew something was wrong....he had a strange fixed gaze at the ceiling in the car, he was a sort of green/yellowish color, his head had a strange tilt to the left and he wouldn't respond to me....I said "Something is wrong with Hudson" and Kailee and I quickly traded places. I yanked him out of car seat and he was limp and lifeless. His eyes were open but his eyeballs were fixed to the far left of his eyes and he would not respond AT ALL...I really think he wasn't breathing at the moment. As soon as I picked him up a large amount of foam spilled out of his mouth. I couldn't find a pulse and for a few minutes honestly thought "he is gone"...a hundred thoughts went thru my head but one that stands out to me was saying to my mom..."No mom....you can't be with him yet"...weird thought but that was what I thought...We were on the phone with 911.....we had NO idea where we were, what to do, who could help. The 911 dispatcher had us exit the next exit and sent an ambulance.....it was 15 minutes away.....SOO..here we were, in the middle of MO, at a gas station, I had Hudson outside walking with him in the parking lot hoping the cold would get him to come around a bit, the girls were sobbing, Jordan was praying, Mark was crying, praying......I KNEW I needed people to pray so handed him to Mark so I could call Pam....she didn't answer so I called my friend Jeni to get the prayers going.....no details, there were none to give, "just please pray".... a few very kind but very hick first responders got there and they looked like heavenly angels....at least someone was there to give him CPR if he needed it, I just didn't think I could. FINALLY the ambulance arrived and we headed back north 15 minutes to a little hospital. STILL no response, fixed eyes and stiff neck, all to the left....... It wasn't until we were in the hospital and they gave him something to pull him out of the seizure did he relax and fall asleep.

We are now at Children's Mercy in Kansas City, MO., transferred by ambulance. He just woke up in about the last hour, was hungry and is happy Hudson. What we know...CT scan is normal, chest x-ray is normal, blood work normal, good vitals. What we don't know...why?? The dr. talked at length with us.....lots of kids have seizures, lots of times they don't know why. When a seizure is short and just once they typically don't do much. They are a bit more concerned with Hudson for a few reasons...his seizure was really long, about an hour, or was a series of several, he had to be pulled out of it, and his Cleft......The neurologist wants to do an EEG in the am and really evaluate him as the Avatar/atavan (sp?) can hide symptoms. Mark's sister Tanya and her husband are on their way and they have a Ronald McDonald house where Mark and the kids can stay.

Seriously, five minutes before I turned to look at Hudson I was telling Mark how much I was looking forward to getting home and getting back to "normal" after our year. We are truly so grateful for the care that has been given to Hudson today.... After 17 1/2 years of parenting, this has been by far the scariest. The kids have been wonderful, they were all so scared and we couldn't really tend to them as we were consumed with Hudson. They sure love their little brother!!!

THANKS to all of you for your comments, emails, fb messages, and texts...We pray that all tests come back normal, this was a freak one time episode, and we can get home tomorrow.....

I'll keep you updated my friends!!!!