Last night I received a call from my daughters mother. Taylor had a seizure!
I was almost certain this was over, when she was around 1 she had a few seizures.
This brought me into an immediate depression with thoughts that I had passed it to her via my DNA. I was assured by the doctor’s that since I was not born with epilepsy, I could not pass it to my children. I’m starting to doubt that.
There are 2 events that occurred that could have actually given Taylor an impact to her brain to eventually cause epilepsy. When her mom was 3 months pregnant with her, she had a bad car accident. She broke her ankle and did a number on her nose. Her car was turned into a V shape. Then, when Taylor was a few months old an incident occured with my mother. My mother was watching her for the day, she went and got some groceries and upon her return to home, placed Taylor on the counter in her car seat. Taylor proceeded to rock a little bit, and she fell to the floor, face first. She had a black eye that just made you cry.
Taylor had a few seizures a few months after the 2nd incident occurred.
There are some strange coincidences around this though. Both my sister and I have epilepsy, and it started around the same age. In both cases it has been contributed to blows to the head, but it can’t be proven to the Nth degree.
I hope my daughter doesn’t have to go through this horrible condition. I believe it makes you a better person inside, but nobody wants their children to go through things such as these.
Hang in there Tator Bug. Daddy loves you.
Honey, I know you are worried as any good Dad should be. Taylor is a tough kid, and the positiveness to this is that her seizure only seemed to be a partial seizure. I hope it was a fluke – I really do! Either way, we will all be there for her to love her and support her.