Well, I wouldn't have assumed that he had epilepsy just because other people in the family have had; it was the combination of that and him having fits! When I went to look at what the NHS website had to say (http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/en.asp?TopicID=190&AreaID=1915&LinkID=1518) (while trying to find out about other possible causes for seizures) it suggested that it could run in families but usually didn't, so, um, that's not very conclusive... (And I didn't have the whooping cough vaccine because the doctors said that it was a bad idea if there was a history of epilepsy in the family! But that was 20-odd years ago, so maybe they thought it was hereditary then but that's been discredited now... Whooping cough wasn't so bad, anyway, it was having it at the same time as chicken pox that sucked.)
Anyway, he's okay now, sure, but I can't help worrying that next time he'll be driving when it happens... :-/
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Date: 2005-01-24 09:55 pm (UTC)Anyway, he's okay now, sure, but I can't help worrying that next time he'll be driving when it happens... :-/