My wife and I just took our youngest child for his 16-week follow up appointment with his neurologist.  He has just crossed the 16-week mark with no seizures.  We have been fortunate, in that the medication (Keppra) hasn’t caused symptoms nearly as bad as some people have reported.  There have been no instances of rages, [...] Read the full article

My wife and I have been very lucky. As many of you know, our youngest child started experiencing seizure activity just after Christmas of 2009. We went through a great deal of searching, and met with two different doctors before getting a diagnosis of generalized idiopathic seizures. At that point, we started medication and began [...] Read the full article

A trip to the Pediatric Neurology Department at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital provided us with a answer about our son’s recent seizure activity.  The diagnosis was epilepsy – generalized, idiopathic with some photolytic response. Now we start the process of healing. Helping Our Child Live With Generalized Idiopathic Epilepsy I’ve written before about the importance of [...] Read the full article

Many of you know that my youngest son suffered a “first seizure” three days after Christmas.  My wife and I have taken steps to try isolating some of the differences in our household, in the hopes we might head off any future seizure activity.  Obviously, it didn’t work. On the evening of Tuesday, February 9th, [...] Read the full article

Our youngest son was diagnosed as asthmatic at around 3 years of age. The formal diagnosis was made at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital by a specialist in their pediatric pulmonology department – and we believed them. We had a handful of scary instances with him at 2 years of age that had us very nervous. They [...] Read the full article

I’m on the hunt to nail down the potential causes of a seizure my youngest child suffered right after Christmas.  It may be that we’re over-reacting, as there’s a lot of evidence that once someone has a second seizure, the chances of recurrent seizures rises dramatically. As we search for a physiological explanation for this [...] Read the full article

Three days after his sixth Christmas, my youngest son experienced what his doctors have called a “first seizure.”  We went immediately to the emergency room, where several tests were ran, as doctors tried to rule out any physical cause for the seizure.  They came up empty, and have called it a “first seizure.” Although I [...] Read the full article

Its amazing how your life priorities can change in an eyeblink. Christmas had come and past, and I’ve saved vacation, taking the time to enjoy time with my family.  To be honest, we’ve been pretty lazy, just hanging around the house and taking care of loose ends, letting the boys enjoy their new toys.  They [...] Read the full article