Oh my gosh, I am having a similar dilemma. My daughter is 8 and has been snowboarding for a couple of years. She was just diagnosed with epi and her episodes are only at night. We also owna ski boat which we havent used for over a year but she skiis too. We are thinking about if we should take her snowboarding again this year, my husband says o course we should. I worry about the lifts, I am there now with her toa ssit her if she needs help but I worry about later on. She is about to return to gumnastics but still is not allowed on the high beam or climbing.
I kind of wish we were not into these particular sports, they are some of the more dangerous, I don' know if I would introduce them at this point if she wasn't already into them? I understand your struggle and I think you have to decide what is best for your son. Megan has a helmit for sowboarding but still I know it can be a deadly sport.
Good Luck with your decision,
Jamie
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> I need some advice/ suggestions. My 6 year old son is epileptic, but currently has been controlled with Lamotigine for 6 months. He wants to learn to ski, my husband thinks that he shouldn't since it may be asking for trouble in the future. I take the view that as long as we take the appropriate precautions, it is OK to start and then review later as he gets older, since it will be a while before he is out and about too much (we don't ski).
> I (we) try to ensure that he has a normal a life as possible, so with things like swimming at school, I go too etc.
> Thoughts please.
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