If he didnt have seziures I wouldnt need you

Today was Eric's three month check up with his Neurologist Dr Charles Neisen at Cedars Sini. Eric was recommended to him at the age of 10 when we found out he was having Asbence Seizures. They first put him on Zorontin but it didnt take as well, so hey put him on Depokote tablets 4 pills three times a day. Now the issue with these seizures they are hard to catch why you may ask. Absence seizures mainly happen in childhood. During an absence seizure, the child appears to be daydreaming or switching off. However, in an absence seizure, the child cannot be woken up. They are very briefly unconscious and unaware of what is happening around themBecause most children tend to daydream at times, absences can be very hard to spot. In some cases, children can be having hundreds of absence seizures a day. This prevents them from learning and fully taking part in school or family activities. These children are missing out on tiny pieces of information. For example, they might hear the first part of a sentence but not the end. They may hear the instruction to go out and play, but not when to be back. Because they might then not do what is expected of them, this may be mistaken for poor behaviour. Parents and teachers may lose patience with children if they don’t realise that they are in fact having a seizure. This is a scary thing for us a parents like all seizures are scary for parents. Well the dr has asked me to keep track of when he has these spells and like stated above it's hard to tell but I have kinda trained myself more to listen to watch. My son Eric is very active meaning always talking, singing, dancing, talking to himself out loud or everytime he hears the somebody car keys moveing he has to ask "where you going lol" So this time I wrote down he had two one in July, August and two in September in full detail of what happened during and after.

Well he looks at me as if not to beleive in what I am saying, he is like well you need to get a watch with a second had so you can tell how many seconds go by during the seizure. I had to explain to him in a calm voice look, when this happends I dont think about time I just want my baby back. I know you are probaly use to parents who want their kids on meds but I am not one of them trust me you know how hard it was to make this decision to put him on meds. I had to ask my trusted friends on what to do, called my mom, my sister before we made this decision. With that being said he mellowed out. So now I have to take him back to our regular dr for more blood work to test the level of medication in his system yippee that is gonna be heck a fun sigh.

This is one of those things I hate about Autism sigh

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