It can be difficult learning to accept a diagnosis of a disorder such as epilepsy, especially when it invloves a child. This is the story of how we learned to get past a label and embraced raising our special boy.

I will never forget that phone call, the moment is frozen in my mind. It was the pediatrician, the doctor himself, and not the nurse. “The nurse always calls with test results,” I thought to myself, “this is not good.”

“Well,” he said, “it looks like the EEG is showing some seizures.” I tried to wrap my mind around the concept. I knew nothing of seizures at the time, had known only a few epileptics and, though I knew what to do for someone during a seizure, I was unable to grasp the concept that my child had this terrible disorder.
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