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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 637768" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Kathy, while some of what she's saying might be true, I have my doubts. My ex, the kid's dad, is a long term hardcore alcoholic and has been for over 40 years. He's been hospitalized countless times. He too has seizures but technically they aren't from drinking, they are from NOT drinking! After so many years his body is so dependent on alcohol that if he's too broke to buy any, when the alcohol starts clearing from his system, part of the withdrawal process is that he goes in to grand mal seizures and he ends up in the hospital again. What he has is NOT epilepsy, it's a symptom of his alcoholism.</p><p></p><p>When my kids were little, they both had suffered seizures a few times and we were always told that there was a history of epilepsy in the family because the ex's father had seizures. Turns out that his were caused by alcoholism too.</p><p></p><p>So she may or may not have really been diagnosed with epilepsy by a doctor. My nephew has epilepsy and wasn't diagnosed until he was in the military. His is triggered by hypoglycemia and if he goes a long time without eating, the drop in his blood sugar levels will bring on grand mal seizures. He was given a medical discharge from the Navy because of it. He was not allowed to drive until he had been on medication and seizure free for a certain period of time. It may have been a year but I honestly don't remember. But he was NEVER, even at the worst of it, told that he couldn't work at all! That part sounds like pure BS! True, there are certain jobs that he cannot be hired for because of his epilepsy. He had always wanted to be a fire fighter and had to rethink it after his diagnosis. But it certainly doesn't prevent him from doing any of the other thousands of jobs out there that aren't consider to be hazardous! He has never been without a job and leads a perfectly normal life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 637768, member: 1883"] Kathy, while some of what she's saying might be true, I have my doubts. My ex, the kid's dad, is a long term hardcore alcoholic and has been for over 40 years. He's been hospitalized countless times. He too has seizures but technically they aren't from drinking, they are from NOT drinking! After so many years his body is so dependent on alcohol that if he's too broke to buy any, when the alcohol starts clearing from his system, part of the withdrawal process is that he goes in to grand mal seizures and he ends up in the hospital again. What he has is NOT epilepsy, it's a symptom of his alcoholism. When my kids were little, they both had suffered seizures a few times and we were always told that there was a history of epilepsy in the family because the ex's father had seizures. Turns out that his were caused by alcoholism too. So she may or may not have really been diagnosed with epilepsy by a doctor. My nephew has epilepsy and wasn't diagnosed until he was in the military. His is triggered by hypoglycemia and if he goes a long time without eating, the drop in his blood sugar levels will bring on grand mal seizures. He was given a medical discharge from the Navy because of it. He was not allowed to drive until he had been on medication and seizure free for a certain period of time. It may have been a year but I honestly don't remember. But he was NEVER, even at the worst of it, told that he couldn't work at all! That part sounds like pure BS! True, there are certain jobs that he cannot be hired for because of his epilepsy. He had always wanted to be a fire fighter and had to rethink it after his diagnosis. But it certainly doesn't prevent him from doing any of the other thousands of jobs out there that aren't consider to be hazardous! He has never been without a job and leads a perfectly normal life. [/QUOTE]
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