Breath Holding

So I'm watching this movie {Firewall} and the kid on it has an allergy attack after eating nuts - he stopped breathing and passed out until they gave him his epi shot. Something about watching this scene really got to me because it totally reminded me Ethan's breath holding spells. It's been a long time since he's had one and when he does have one, they're really, really minor. Not at all like when they first started and were so scary. Actually, just last week Ethan had one - the worst he'd had in probably a year. We were playing softball at a church activity and he was playing with another kid and got hurt. Anyway, the combination of this attack and the movie led me to looking for videos online of breath holding spells {is that weird?! I mean, honestly, Sean and I had actually thought of getting one of Ethan's on video, but were never in the frame of mind to grab the camera when they happened} and doing a little more research about it. I couldn't find any videos that matched Ethan's breath holding, but this one came pretty close...



Ethan's always started out very similar to this. Crying and then no crying, no breathing and he would get really stiff and rigid. His eyes would roll into the back of his head, his lips would turn blue and he would pass out. Once he passed out, his whole body would go completely limp and then he would slowly come to looking very dazed. Also, unlike in this video, we almost always held him. First, I didn't want him to accidentally hurt himself and mainly I wanted to be holding him and able to comfort him the second he came out of it.

I know, really, really random post. But this was a big part of our lives for over a year and it had been a while since I had thought about it.
New to our blog? Here are links to other posts about breath holding.
May 28, 2008
May 30, 2008
July 20, 2008
October 7, 2008
{Wow... I didn't realize I hadn't wrote about it in so long. There may be a mention of it here and there, but I don't think I have any other specific posts.}