At the age of twelve, while Nathan was in grade 7, I was called to come to the school as something was wrong with Nathan. I went and he was in the nurse’s room with another classroom teacher that I trusted and his Educational Assistant that he has had for 6 years now. He looked like he had fallen asleep and was waking up, but he was listless and incoherent. The two of them stated that they think Nathan had a seizure. I took him home and called the doctor to book us in with a Neurologist. This took a few weeks. We went to have another EEG, that Dr. Meany from McMaster Hospital recommended, and there was again nothing. Dr Meany concluded that it was not a seizure. We continue to see little stares into space and we were convinced they were indeed absence seizures that lasted for just seconds and then he was fine. But we made everyone aware of them just in case the doctor was wrong.

Nothing else had been seen until Grade 8. I was called by the secretary and told to immediately come to the school as they believed Nathan was having a seizure. My daughter, Tasha also called me crying to come to the school but I was already at the school in the parking waiting for school to finish. They wheeled Nathan from class to the office so that the students would not be afraid to give Nathan more privacy. The secretary as well as the principle called 911 two separate times but the ambulance was not coming.

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