Emily

Hi!My 9 year old daughter has not had seizures since very early childhood, other than the odd abscence one, which didn't seem to do anything to her. Emily is a part of a therapeutic swim program through school and has loved participating for 3 years without any problems until 2 months ago when she suddenly had a seizure right in the pool. She wasn't injured but the seizure lasted about 2 minutes and involved her eyes rolling back and her jaw pulling toward her chest and her body stiffen. I was terrified, and kept her out of the pool of course. She had no aftereffects at all. The physio talked me into trying again with the same result!!! Emily doesn't talk so can't tell me anything about how she feels before or after these seizures. Her Doctors are useless, all they say is what do you want to do about it? She has had countless EEG's and MRI's during her life and other than minor right temporal lobe activity, they have been unremarkable. Em is not diagnosed, but had head trauma at birth and has low tone, is nonverbal and scoots on her bum to get around. She is a delight, always happy and huggy. I don't want to run to Children's since that is the most stressful thing I can do to Emily, but hope someone out there can enlighten me why the pool can trigger this, and after 3 years of nothing!!! Thanks so much-Lotten