> a man with his toddler
> son came up to me to tell me that this cute little boy had had twenty
> or thirty seizures a day starting in infancy, but that his seizures
> had been completely controlled by surgery. Are these really frequent
> seizures more common in very young children? Are there particular
> types of epilepsy that are characterized by many seizures a day?
Elizabeth on this list said that a year ago she was having 20 seizures a
day, from absence to complex partial to generalized.
These stories happen more often than you think; a lot of babies are born
with weird complications like growths or tumors that are successfully
operated on, with the baby recovering pretty well especially if the surgery
is early. Kids are much easier to lobotomize than adults. If you take out
something from a kid's brain that turns out to be important, the part of the
brain that you didn't take out will realize there is a deficit and remaining
tissue somewhere else will be drawn into taking responsibility for dealing
with it. Adult brains are set in their ways. They're done figuring this
stuff out.
Jason
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