Thursday, January 8, 2009

Nicky Duncan

We all had quite a scary day on Monday. While Nick was at Joy School he started feeling sick and told my friend, Abby, that he was going to throw up. She called me to let me know and as I was on the phone with her, he lost consciousness. She immediately called 911 and I arrived at her house a few minutes before they did. He was still unconscious and had been for about 10-15 minutes. The EMTs put oxygen on him and he woke up. They then transported him to the ER where they did a bunch of tests, including a CAT scan to figure out what was wrong. They initially told us that they thought it was a seizure and wanted us to go to Primary Children's to get more tests done and figure out what was wrong. After going to our pediatrician, he is thinking it might be more related to some kind of heart problem. He had an EKG yesterday, which we were told looks good for now but it is being sent to Primary's for a specialist to read it. We may not know for a few weeks what is wrong if they are able to figure it out. Of course, we've all been upset and worried about this. Nick is acting fine now but is having a hard time feeling up to doing much of anything. I think he's still pretty shook up. Please keep him in your prayers! We hope we find out more soon!
Here's a picture of little Nicky after coming home from the hospital. He was wasted. Our cat, Callie, was unusually cuddly, like she knew he wasn't feeling too great. I had to snap a pic while that lasted.

4 comments:

Wade Sticht, PE said...

Hang in there, Nicky (and you too, Cyndi and Ben)! We hope the docs can figure out what happened and that you get feeling better soon!

Grant and Stacy said...

Wow, scary. I'm sure they already looked in to it, but did he have a fever? Sometimes really high fevers can cause seizures/passing out. But 10-15 minutes, that's a long time. I hope it's something mild.

Anonymous said...

Oh my gosh! How scary! I'll be thinking about you guys and sweet Nicky. Auntie Em

Gina said...

Oh no! I hope all goes well with the tests. Keep us updated, and we'll keep you in our prayers. Not that the prayers are contingent on the updates, but you know what I mean. :)