As the mother of an adult autistic man who has uncontrolled epilepsy, author Vikki Lawrence felt frustrated with different medical professionals asking the same questions over and over. She also needed a better way to track his seizures, medications (daily and rescue), blood tests and all of the other many aspects of dealing with epilepsy. She wrote this book to help with all of that, tracking her son's progression through epilepsy, PLUS it also gives easy-to-read information to help other medical professionals, family and friends understand what he is going through. The book includes ... -pages to track your important medical information
-seizure related terminology
-comments from people dealing with epilepsy
-epilepsy and seizure basics
-symptoms and triggers
-treatments and possible surgeries
-SUDEP
-lots of forms and logs to track seizures, rescue meds and much more "EPILEPSY - One Mother's Perspective" is also great to keep track of important information (for yourself AND your health care team) such as: relevant contacts, doctor and testing appointments, medications tried, discussions (including questions and answers) with doctors, blood work needed, occurrences of all sorts of seizure types, usage of a VNS swiper, and whatever else is necessary to best help you. This book is indispensable, whether you are a person dealing with seizures, or one who is taking care of such a person. See also the ebook/Kindle version of this book.