2 Thumbs Up for the Chalmers Hospital As It Rocks Purple Day to Raise Awareness for Epilepsy! March 26, 2015

Dawn Bowie, a long time friend who works at the Emergency Department of the Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton New Brunswick shared this Youtube video of staff at the Chalmers rocking Purple Day yesterday.  I saw it a few minutes ago and it made a great start to my day.  Seeing this video really lifted my spirits and reminded me of those who care and those who help.

Conor suffered a life threatening reaction to his seizure medication in April 2013 but the Chalmers Emergency and Intensive Care Unit were there to keep him  safe and restore his health.

Our family has another connection to the Chalmers Hospital and their services to person with epilepsy: our younger son suffers from autism disorder and epileptic seizures.  His seizures have required 911 calls and ambulance trips to the Chalmers on several occasions including recently.  He has always received excellent care at the emergency room of the Chalmers.  On one occasion he suffered a serious, life threatening adverse reaction to the seizure medication he was taking at that time.  While watching my son lying unconscious on a hospital bed in the Chalmers Intensive Care Unit where he stayed for 6 days connected to monitors with tubes gathering bodily fluids for testing I was aware of the danger he was in by I still could not bring myself to believe that I might lose him.  The reality though was that he was in great danger when he arrived and he left the Chalmers because of the amazing health care team that saved his life and restored his health..

The Chalmers has been a life saver for my son.  Yesterday they also contributed to epilepsy awareness and produced a video that lifts my spirits as I start this day. 

2 thumbs up for the Chalmers, 2 thumbs way up!!!!

Conor One Year Later!

Above: Conor this morning before Mom drove him to school  at the Leo Hayes High School Resource Centre.  Mom and Dad are very happy to have our Conor with us healthy and happy.  

Below: One year ago Conor was in the Intensive Care Unit of the Chalmer's Hospital for 6 days where he was unconscious for most of the first 3 days during an adverse reaction to his seizure medication at that time. We can't say thank you often enough to our family doctor and the emergency room and intensive care units at the Chalmers for giving us our Conor back.

Run Jump Fly Boy Is Back - Thank You Again DECH ICU!

A few months ago, Conor was lying unconscious  in a bed at the Intensive Care Unit of the Chalmers' Hospital (the DECH) with tubes running out of his body and hooked up to 10+ year old monitoring equipment.  Notwithstanding the age of the monitoring equipment the fantastic DECH ICU team brought Conor back to us without any restrictions or impairments.  Conor's recovery has been constant since his release and we are happy. Today on the trail Conor hit the final recovery benchmark with the return of our Run, Jump, Fly boy!