You and Roux

Bungalow - pt. 2

The next morning Harry woke up to a fur missile. AKA Roux alerting in the early morning hours. He rolled over half asleep and checked his sugar. It was 100 so he was even more confused. As he settled back in bed he noticed Roux was trying to drag him off the bed by his foot. "Fuck." he muttered under his breath. Harry knew he was about to have a seizure; he could only hope it wasn't a grand mal. Having two so close to each other was never good and could mean he was starting a cluster episode. As he got to the ground and on his side, he pressed the button in Roux's collar and commanded "get help."

Louis smacked Roux as he was jumped on and rudely awoken. As Louis rolled over and realized Harry was not in bed it was like a bucket of ice water was dropped on his head and he sat bolt upright in bed trying to figure out what was wrong. Roux then dragged Louis over to help. "What's up?"

"I'm going to have another seizure."

"So close?"

"ya, I hope it's not a grand mal but idk"

"Ok, have you pressed your button? What's your blood sugar?"

"yes, and 100"

"You seem with it so what do you want to do?"

"Just lay here? Idk, I feel fine so if it is a grand mal it is far off. Can you get the phone from the kitchen and see if anyone else is up?"

Louis left the room and grabbed the phone as he passed the kitchen. He wandered into the living room not expecting anyone to be up due to the microwave informing him it was 6am. He saw Liam dazed looking out the window. "Hey, Harry is about to have another episode, can you help or should I wake one of the others?" Liam shook his head as he refocused and thought about Louis' question. He nodded and followed Louis back into the bedroom.

As they settled down sitting by Harry the phone rang. Louis answered and put it on speaker. "Hey, what's up? Do I need to come over or was it an accident?"

Harry responded "I pressed the button, Roux woke me up and dragged me to the floor. My blood sugar is 100 so I don't know what is happening and I feel fine."

"Ok, do you think it could be a drop."

"maybe"

"Ok, call if you need me."

Harry looked up after the phone call ended and was surprised to see Liam there. "Ok, so since Roux is not worried it most likely will not be a grand mal seizure. You guys probably have not noticed but I have multiple absence seizures each day and also what are called drop seizures. This set up means it most likely will be a drop seizure. Roux does not alert to absence seizures unless I'm in a dangerous area but her pulling be to the ground signals drop. If I'm right I will go limp but will still be able to hear and see. Please keep track of the blood sugar or possible vertigo episode after as I'm confused on why she pulled me off the bed."

"Ok, what do you need now?"

"A distraction ..."

"Ok, well Robin mentioned that you use signs often after bad episodes. Do you want to teach me some?"

"Let's do that later when everyone is up. We could talk about the plan for Roux when we are performing."

Liam spoke up. "Aren't you going to bring her on stage like last time?"

"No I don't think that would be best because if they want us to do the traditional boy band thing we will be dancing and moving around. I don't want her to get hurt."

"That makes sense, what were your ideas?"

"I was thinking of putting her in a down stay right off stage and having her come to me when we line up to get the results. She will also have her e-collar on so I can call her if I'm having an issue. But generally she would be away from me for like 2 minutes while we perform so I don't think it will be a problem."