Saturday, March 15, 2008

Seizures...

We have been waiting patiently for the results of the EEG. They said it would be 7-10 days before we heard. Yesterday (Friday) was 9 days so I called and left a message for the neurologist's nurse...but of course no one called me back.

I am pretty sure he has been having seizures and not the same kind he was having back in October, which were found to be sub clinical partial seizures. Not only have I been noticing seizures but the school nurse had called last week about them and the speech therapist had also noticed them. They are staring kind of seizures, sort of like the ones he was having a long time ago, but just a little bit different...it seems he is a little more conscious during these instead of just blank when he was having them before. Some will call them absence or petite mal seizures but they are not generalized (at least they haven't been in the past) as absence seizures are...so they are absence-like but not actually absence seizures.

That is why I am a little anxious to get the results. Hopefully Monday.