Chucks Life Stories

Taking A Fit?

I do not know this story real well, other than when my brother was little he developed this habit that if he didn't get his way or something made him up set, he would start to cry, hold his breath, turn red and then send himself into a convulsion. This caused him to fall to the ground, trembling and shaking and trying to get his breath back. This would scare our mother, and being a young mom at the time, she didn't know how to stop this ordeal from happening and was scared he was going to kill himself.

Well, this one day, they were all outside in front of the house doing something in the yard. It was during that time something happened to Chuck and he got angry at the world and went into one of his fitful rages, started to shake and proceeded to fall down on the ground in a convulsive state.

Mom, ran towards him, I am sure wondering what to do this time, that might help her son get over this habit he had worked himself into. As she ran towards him, she saw the rain barrel full of water, just on the other side of him. So she bends down, grabs him by the heels, runs to the barrel and dunks him head first into the barrel of water, and then just as quickly pulls him out again.

Well, guess what? When he came back out of the water, he had his breath back, you might say he was cooled off, but not only was he cooled off, he was also curred, because I understood that he never again through himself into a convulsive state, for the rest of his life.

Now, I do not recommend this treatment for all convulsive babies, but in an emergency, this one time it worked. The moral of the story, if nothing works, use whatever you have on hand to solve a problem that is worth fixing.