Epilepsy

Praise God!!!  Let me start by saying its been a little crazy the past couple of months.  I wanted to give a little history and update from Bradford's appt. with the neurologist.  Brad and I noticed him having what I thought was an absence seizure one afternoon.  We monitored him very closely after that and saw that he was having several a day.  I took him to the pediatrician and then got referred to the neurologist.  Of course our first appt. got cancelled. So a month later we got in. In the mean time he was having anywhere from 5-12 a day.  I know your probably thinking, my gosh but that didn't scare me as much as the behavioral changes we saw.  He had some severe anxiety and fear and it kills you as a mother when you can't take that away for them.  Let me just say that I am so thankful that it is just absence seizures( because I know it could be a lot worse). So Tuesday he had his eeg and the neurologist was able to see a few seizures. I gotta say my lil' man went through the whole test with a smile on his face. The Dr. did diagnose him as having childhood absence epilepsy.  We started him on his new medicine and so far so good.  He has gone 24 hrs now with no seizures and no crazy side effects from his meds! Thank you to everyone who has kept us in their thoughts and prayers. We really appreciate it.