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To: mph who wrote (1082)	8/1/2007 10:53:47 AM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1564

When I was in HS I worked tutoring kids with math and reading problems since I only had 2 hours of class as a senior. I had one 7th grade boy who would punch me in the shoulder when he would talk to me. After a week of this and my continually telling him to not hit me I said the next time you hit me I'm going to hit you back. Well a few minutes later he hit me, I hit him back on the shoulder and he dropped to the floor like I had shot him and went into a grand maul seizure. Until that moment nobody knew he was epileptic. You want to talk about scare the bejesus out of me. Never seen anything like it and thought I had killed the kid.

To: mph who wrote (1082)	8/1/2007 10:54:35 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1564

i have never actually witnessed a person having a seizure....justice robert's sounded like the 'scary' kind when my daughter was told she had epilepsy (according to the definition of at least 2 incidents) we were really perplexed as there is no family history, no head trauma, no history of migraines, nothing i worry about her because she is unwilling to curtail her lifestyle (when she told me about her scuba diving, i sent her links advising an epileptic against it, no dice, she just promised me not to dive more than 100 feet) i think like suma wrote, denial is very strong, especially when epileptic seizures are heavily associated with mental disability no one wants to be told they cannot drive when they feel perfectly fine and capable and the incidents are well over 10 years apart....she was very fortunate to be walking, not driving alone, she realizes that, but i believe she is convinced the second one was a 'one off' event, happened while she was on a business trip, highly stressed, over-tired, etc