I went to sleep at around 5am and got woken to my mum screaming my name at around 7:50am.
My granny had had another seizure. This time though, luckly, she was still in bed. She hadn't fallen and hurt herself, but it did signify that the fall and bang to the head maybe wasn't what caused the first one.
She didn't stop breathing or anything, but the seizure itself was the exact same as last time. So we called an ambulance, the paramedics arrived and gave her oxygen and took her up to the hospital where we then followed in the car.
At the hospital they made us wait for a while in the waiting room, before calling us through. While I understand that it's proceedure and they can't really give anyone special treatment, you'd think that for someone with dementia, someone who can't really communicate their normal behaviour, they'd call through at least one family member/carer as soon as they were available, to oversee things.
Anyway, when we got through, she was already slowly sliding herself down the bed to get out and telling everyone to go away, and that she was going home -- a marked improvement on last time, when she was super quiet.
A nurse brought her some tea and toast which she downed. Then they got her dressed and stuff, and made sure she was alright on her feet (she was).
The doctor said that because it was the second seizure and not one that could be attributed to a fall/bang on the head, they were going to put her on some anti-seizure meds. So she's got a fortnight's worth of those home with her, all her blood tests came back fine and there was no sign of infection at all, that might have caused it.
She was falling asleep on the drive home, but the doctor said that that was normal and that they'd expect a patient to be tired after a seizure.
The patient's grandson is also tired though and is now going back to sleep.
Huzzah!
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