In November 2019, Ian fell out of his chair. He was there on the ground for just a second or two with his eyes were open. As I helped him get up, he was really confused about why he was on the floor.
That was his first visible seizure, but it didn’t last long or he didn’t shake, so his doctor wasn’t too worried. Maybe it was a one-off, she said.
We scheduled his first EEG after the holidays. They hooked up his head with a beanie cap of electrodes for thirty minutes. When the results came back normal, the doctor said that we should do a full weekend test just to be certain. She gave us a briefcase of equipment, a beanie cap of electrodes, and a portable video camera that had to be trained on his face the whole weekend.
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