About one month ago my daughter was home from school with a high fever.  After I just gave her some medicine to reduce her fever, she stopped breathing, turned blue, starting shaking and her eyes rolled back - I thought she was dying.  Hysterically crying, I called 911 and sent my contractor to get my neighbor who is also a nurse.  In the meantime, I tried to perform CPR but for the minute or two that it lasted I truly thought my little girl was going to die.  The Milford EMS squad (you rock!) showed up in less than five minutes.  They explained that she likely had a febrile seizure (a what?) and we decided to take her to the hospital for further testing and observation.  Thank goodness our little girl was released the same day.  Her fever lasted for about 5 days, due to a virus.  We were told that this may occur again which of course frightens me to the core.  I contacted Dr. Calabrese of Skylands Pediatrics to provide more information to our PikeMoms.com users on these types of seizures because I'm afraid pediatricians are not doing a good enough job educating parents and warning parents of the possiblity that this may occur - and if so what to do.  If you too have had to live though this - I am so sorry.  You are not alone - and thank goodness most of these are harmless.