A mum or dad’s worst nightmare…
On Wednesday’s episode of the Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best podcast, the actress revealed her daughter Birdie had a seizure earlier this month. So scary!! And even worse, the anxious momma witnessed it on FaceTime… from all the best way throughout the pond!
Recalling the horrific telephone name, Busy defined that her daughter — who has been at boarding college in Sweden — went to see the brand new Hunger Games film together with her good friend in Stockholm. But it become a brilliant scary scenario when she instantly turned sick. Referencing her ex-husband and child daddy, Marc Silverstein, she defined how she found the well being points:
“I was just kind of like muttering to myself and then I heard Marc screaming for me and I was like, ‘What does this f**king guy want now?’ And I went upstairs but then I heard his voice and I knew something was really wrong. And he just said, ‘It’s Birdie, it’s Birdie. She’s had another seizure. The paramedics are on the phone.’”
Oh no!
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Getting emotional, the 44-yr-previous continued:
“The paramedics were on FaceTime and she had just come out of the seizure and she was still in the post-aura state. They were like, hooking her up with stuff on FaceTime. … [Birdie’s] friend [Sarah] who was with her, she was holding the phone so she was kind of, it was like this weird medium shot. So you could see everything that was happening. So it felt, it was just so weird.”
The kiddo, who has returned to utilizing she/her pronouns, was even gesturing and calling out for her, saying, “Mama. Mama. Mama. Where are you? Mama.” Oof. That should’ve been so exhausting to listen to — particularly from so far-off!
While noting it was most likely good they had been within the metropolis since it’s a lot nearer to the hospital, the Dawson’s Creek alum had a variety of reward for her child’s good friend, who jumped into motion:
“The paramedics were there almost immediately, I guess. And Birdie’s friend Sarah, shout out Sarah, literally, I don’t even understand. She’s 17 but this girl managed to get one person to go tell the theater to shut it the f**k down, she got two guys that they obviously didn’t know that were sitting behind, because Birdie started choking and throwing up, to move Birdie gently to the ground and put her on her side. She got someone else to call the Swedish 911.”
Meanwhile, Sarah referred to as the home mum or dad for his or her dorm and received Birdie’s mother and father’ numbers so she may loop them in on the spot. Such spectacular fast considering!
While Sarah was doing all of this, Busy was frantically looking for the quickest option to her firstborn’s bedside, including:
“I was literally googling private planes. I was like, ‘How much does it cost? $100,000? Can I put that on a credit card? How does that work?’ I was like, ‘How do I not know anyone with a f**king private plane. I got to hang out with fancier people. Would Taylor Swift fly me to Sweden right now? Who knows Taylor Swift?’”
So aggravating! Elsewhere within the podcast, she famous this was not Birdie’s first seizure. The 15-yr-previous beforehand suffered one on her mom’s first day of filming for the Mean Girls musical, recalling:
“I couldn’t leave set and Marc had run to the school and had gotten there at the same time as the paramedics so he had seen her in this similar sort of thing before. But it was really awful seeing it on a screen, being in a different country across an ocean.”
Such a worst-case state of affairs being up to now out of your baby at a time of want. Thankfully, Busy did make it to the hospital ultimately, and the teenager is doing higher. Once given the A-OK, the mother and father packed Birdie’s issues and introduced her dwelling to the States, too. In an replace on Instagram (HERE), Busy added:
“Birdie is fine. I am fine. We are all going to be okay. But it’s been a time. and a year.”
We can’t even start to think about. So glad Birdie is okay.
We are sending all of them a number of love as they cope with this scary scenario!
[Image via WWHL/YouTube & Busy Philips/Instagram]
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