[Grampa Dave]

“As a person with one of the year more rare forms of epilepsy and essentially diagnosed myself through reading medical research, she is having some sort of seizure events. An average person doesn’t know all the manifestations of epilepsy, so it is difficult for folks to get their mind around it unless these see someone convulsed on the floor.”

Absence Seizures | Epilepsy Foundation
www.epilepsy.com/learn/types-seizures/absence-seizures
Epilepsy.com

An absence seizure causes a short period of “blanking out” or staring into space. Like other kinds of seizures, they are caused by abnormal activity in a person’s brain. You may also hear people call absence seizures petit mal (“PUH-tee mahl”) seizures, although that name is not common anymore.

Good FPs/Peds will often have a strobe flash light to help make this diagnosis by triggering it in a semi dark exam room.

We know a couple, who adopted a young baby girl from one of the former USSR countries. She is a teen ager, and she has recently been having problems at school and at home and was getting a bad behavior rap put on her by teachers/coaches.

The parents were spending a lot of money on diagnosis. A retired fp, friend of the family did the strobe light test. He made a prelim diagnosis of absence seizures. Then, they got a neurologist, who confirmed that she had and was having absence/petit mal seizures.

She lost her driver’s license. She and her family were upset.

She has been fitted with new glasses in this month. Her parents say that she is back to normal now with the minor drug treatment and the glasses.

[EBH]

Good for her, she is diagnosed and getting effective treatment. I have nocturnal seizures and the strobe light test indicated completely normal brain activity. It has been years since that diagnosis and mine are well controlled. I work, run a business, manage my household just like a normal person. So Hillary having a seizure disorder that is controlled is no big deal, her having a seizure disorder not under control is a HUGE deal. For some absence seizures is all that happens, for others those minor type seizures are sometimes included in the 'aura effect' that happens just prior to a major seizure event that will take place within the next few moments to hours. Absence seizures can sometimes be overcome with biofeedback and the person simply resumes what they were doing and never realizes what happened. Hillary had that bobble head type seizure event(partial complex seizure), that was not an absence seizure and indicates her seizures are far more concerning. I continue to contend her seizure disorder has existed long before the blood clot to the brain. She has a history of "fainting" going all the way back to college. It is the stress and lack of sleep that is triggering these events. It is the medication and dose needed to keep them under control that disqualifies her to be President.