Lauren

For once I am not blogging about the drama of foster care! I just wanted to give you all an update on Lauren and her Epilepsy.
We had noticed that this past school year has been a bit more challenging and that she was having some focus/concentration issues. She seemed to be distracted a lot. We met with her neurologist at the beginning of January and he seemed to think that she might have ADD. Of course he wanted to put her on medication right then. I said no way! We decided to wait and see what her EEG said. If her EEG came back that she was having "breakthrough" seizures throughout the day that could have more to do with her focus problems.Even though she doesn't know that she is having a seizure she will tend to lose her place if she is reading or concentrating.She can't tell you why she is distracted because she doesn't know she just had a seizure.   If it came back that she wasn't having any seizure activity then ADD was probably to blame. Well, yesterday we got the results and it showed that she was definitely having some abnormal seizure activity which means that she is having breakthrough seizures even though she is on a medication to control them. They don't want to adjust her medication at this point because there is a limit to how much of the medication she can have in her system. We just have to deal with it for the time being.  ADD would be so much easier to treat! The hard part is trying be a good teacher and for both of us to be good parents to her through something that she has no control over and that effects everything she does. God has given this to her for a reason and we have to accept that and know that He knows best!