The stress was caused by my divorce and the ex was telling my daughter
things that she knew were untrue; worst of it was that he managed to
convince my mother and sister that what he was saying was the truth
and so my daughter was getting snide, and sometimes vicious, comments
from both of them as well.  She also said that he was interferring
with her which she also knew was wrong.  It was all too much for a 7
year old to cope with.  Mercifully she hasn't seen any one of the
three for two years now. She's had a stepfather she adores and who
adores her for the last three years.  She feels safe now because she
knows that her stepfather will protect all of us.

My daughter was in hospital for 48 hours after that really bad fit.

Last month we went to an adventure park and my daughter, who's now 10,
climbed 30ft up a tree and went down on a 60ft zip wire thing (you
know the sort of thing I mean?).  If anything was going to cause her
to fit, that would have but she didn't.  So her paediatrician is right
to discharge her.

I can understand the stress involved in moving house and building cars
for a 24-hour race, especially if you were doing the two things at the
same time.  Moving house is apparently the most stressful situation
there is, according to the experts.  It can certainly be a nightmare.
Was the race Le Mans or Indy??  I used to do motor race marshalling
many years ago.

Try not to worry too much about the fit.  Try to take a deep breath
and say "OK, this has happened but I'm going to get on with my life
now."  If you can manage to avoid having too many stressful things
going on at once, so much the better.  

I know that's all easier said than done :))

My guess is, pumping you full of anticonvulsants.

And then what?

Mary

Hello,

Sorry to hear this Eric that your cousin had to go this way for 90 miles in
the ambulance. My doctor / neurologist gave me something called diazepam
which can be given rectally. The pharmacist gave me a easy to read diagram
with the "how to insert this", etc. I do not know what happens when someone
other then paramedics founds this in my jacket while I have a seizure with
complete loss of consiousness, but I wear it together with my medical
passport just for safety reasons. There is of course no way I can insert
this myself. It is really first aid to prevent I become a "status
epilepticus" / to prevent brain damage, etc.

It is however a shame that (not all) paramedics (throughout the world) don't
have this in their first aid kid for persons that really need it / for
persons that are suffering from prolonged convulsions / seizures happening
in clusters, etc. which do not stop automatically. Have a look at:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/epilepsy010829.html

For your information, diazepam given rectally may be helpful in treating
prolonged convulsions but this is something you already noticed of course.

Hopefully this helps?

Cheers,
Marco