When my son was born, he had seizures. He was put on Phenobarbitol for a short period of time to stop his seizures and to prevent them from coming back. Just like your Icee, we were able to wean him off of the Phenobarbitol. I wanted to tell you though, incase noone had, that Phenobarbitol is probably the reason that your Icee will not grow much more. She has been stunted for the lack of better words during her most crucial growing period. That's the reason most doctors (human and pet) don't like to put them on Phenobarbitol for any long periods of time. It has the effect of physical and psychological developmental delay or depression. (I'm a 10 year pharmacy technician too.) My son hasn't had another seizure since the ones he had when he was 5 days old. No traumatic birth but yet there was a tiny bit of blood at the base of his brain that could have been causing just enough pressure that sent his body into seizure activity. It was never fully determined what caused my son's seizures. We live every day knowing that since his body already knows how to seize, it will be more apt to seize again if ever it needs to fight off an infection. Just be aware of it in the future...it's a learned thing. Once the body knows how to do it, it'll do it again if it sees that it can try that to get rid of other bad things. Hence febrile seizures in patients that have had seizures in their lives before.
Hopefully Icee won't ever have another seizure. And remember, Icee isn't experiencing any pain during her seizures....that's the one thing that got me thru seeing my son have them. Knowing that he wasn't feeling anything that was hurting him. It was so much more painful to me than it was to him.
BTW...Icee is a DOLL BABY!
