Road Trips....not our thing

We decided to try it again. After almost 3 years since the last roadtrip that landed Henley in the hospital for 4 days. We got in the car and made the same 7 hour drive to Louisiana to see my Mom's side of the family. The night before we left about 6:30 pm Haven started running a fever and not feeling well. She threw up in her bed at midnight and we didn't get much sleep. We put a certain group of highly anti-viral/anti-microbial essential oils on her and put her back to bed. The next morning Haven was feeling better so I went to go get Henley up and she had just thrown up in her bed!! What on earth?!? We repeated the same protocol with Henley and we cleaned up and got in the car and headed east. 


Everyone made the drive and seemed to be fine when we got there so is just chalked it up to a tummy bug and the oils doing their job once again and it was over. The kids went to sleep and woke up the next morning with no issues. While eating breakfast henley threw up on three different occasions. We got in the car and decided to try to get to Destin and get settled.
 
The next morning we woke up and were getting everyone ready to head to the beach. We were spraying the kids with sunscreen and then I headed back inside with Henley to wash hands. Henley went to the potty and then started walking out of the bathroom and stopped outside the door. I was washing my hands and heard Henley yell "MOM! MOM! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?" I looked over at her and she was standing in an open space with her legs in a wide stance and her arms out to the side and she was twisting side to side. I said to her "What are you talking about Henley, I am not even touching you." She did not look at me or respond when I spoke to her. I immediately knew something was not right and got down on the floor right in front of her. I yelled for Adam. I started saying "Henley, Henley! Henley!!!" and no response. She was standing there staring straight ahead and biting her lip repetitively. She appeared to all of a sudden get very dizzy and she sat down quickly on the floor. It appeared that the repetitive motions had stopped and she had "come to" after being off in space for a couple of minutes. I asked her "Henley are you okay?" She was still not looking right at me, but her eyes were open. She started saying "Mom, Mom....where are you? she was reaching out in front of her because she knew she could hear my voice but it appeared she was scared because she was not able to see me sitting right in front of her. Shortly after that she appeared to be having vertigo of some sort. Adam and I both helped her to the bathroom in case she threw up. She proceeded to lay on the bathroom floor for a while recovering. She seemed to bounce back within about 30 minutes and she was acting normal again. We decided to go ahead and go on with our day and head to the beach. We spent a couple hours there and then decided to head back to the room. On our way back to the car Henley threw up again and then fell asleep on the bench at the bus stop waiting for our shuttle. After that day Henley seemed to be fine. 

To answer your question. No, we have not had her seen by her doctors since this episode. We honestly don't know what else they can do. We know that what she had is a type of seizure, we are just not sure on the whole temporarily not being able to see me right in front of her face. That honestly was the scariest thing I have witnessed. The whole episode lasted about 5 minutes. We have done several EEG's in the past and they have never been able to catch any seizure activity on the test so we are not sure what causes them. It APPEARS that there might be some kind of trigger when we drive in the car longer than about 5 hours. We don't drive long distances a lot, but the three times that we have Henley has had some kind of episode the following day. We do not have this problem when we are flying. Only driving. Weird.