The Anderson Family: Alaina's scary moment

I should say right away that Alaina is perfectly fine, but gave us quite a scare when she had a seizure on Sunday, December 18th. We were attending church in Belle Plaine for Mikayla's Sunday school Christmas program & Alaina was sleeping peacefully in her carseat. Around 9:50am, I noticed she was starting to wake up in her car seat & within seconds I knew something wasn't quite right. She had this strange look on her face & then her eyes started to roll up & she was shaking & not responding to us like she normally would. I immediately got her out of the carseat, took her out of the church & asked the small group of people that were standing by the door if they knew a nurse or doctor. I told them that I thought something was wrong & that I thought she was having a seizure. At this moment, I dropped to my knees in the hallway, holding Alaina & cried, watching my little girl & feeling so helpless. Someone called 911 for me right away & another lady from our church was kneeling right next to me with her arm around me, helping to keep me calm. I believe the seizure lasted for about 2 minutes, but that two minutes seems like eternity in my mind. The seizure stopped & within minutes, she was her normal, happy, smiley self, which was a great relief. The seizure stopped before the ambulance arrived, but they took Alaina & I in the ambulance to Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia as a precaution while Randall, Mikayla & Nolan drove separately in our van. Of course, this was the one time that both Randall & I accidentally left our cell phones at home. The paramedic in the ambulance let me borrow his phone & I was able to call my mom & dad so they could come to the hospital & pick up Mikayla & Nolan. The ER was quite a busy place that Sunday morning & there was only one doctor, so there was quite a lot of waiting. We were probably in the ER for about 4-5 hours where they were able to draw her blood to run some tests & take a CT scan. The tests came back normal & because her seizure wasn't fever related & had never happened before, they had to send us to children's hospital in Minneapolis to get an MRI. We arrived at children's around 4:30pm where Alaina & I spent the night. Her EEG was scheduled for 8:30am Monday morning, but her MRI wasn't able to be scheduled until 4pm (and didn't actually happen until 6pm) Monday afternoon, so it was a long day. We finally were told around 8pm that her MRI was normal (GREAT NEWS!!) & that we could go home. After being discharged, we got home around 10pm & were ready for bed. Although we don't really know what caused her seizure, we are keeping a close eye on her & hoping it will not happen again. We will keep all of you posted if there are any new developments.