This last week has been National Epilepsy Week. This week aims to raise awareness of how epilepsy affects someone who lives with the condition. Our son, Kieran, is one of over 600,000 people in the UK that has epilepsy. He was diagnosed with it 8 years ago. It came just a week after receiving a diagnosis of autism (until that point, I was unaware that epilepsy and autism can often go hand in hand). He’d also had what we’d thought was a fainting episode a few years earlier, but now that seems more likely to have been his first seizure. The epilepsy diagnosis would change not only his life, but ours too (although to a lesser extent).
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