Epilepsy is a brain condition that causes repeated, unprovoked seizures due to sudden bursts of abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Medication can prevent seizures but not cure the underlying condition.<\/p>\n
Recalling Grace’s first epileptic seizure in March 2025, Lyndsey said it was “very scary”.<\/p>\n
“She was actually posing in her World Book Day costume and I was trying to take a photo of her and then she wouldn’t look at me and then suddenly she’s staring off sideways,” she recalled.<\/p>\n
Grace fell to the floor, said Lyndsey, and was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
“It took a long time for her to come back round and be able to speak to us and look at us,” she added.<\/p>\n
Grace would go on to be diagnosed with epilepsy during the summer holidays.<\/p>\n
Turning to the internet, Lyndsey was met with stories of delayed school starts, part-time timetables and children “missing out” following their diagnoses.<\/p>\n
“I was worried that might be the case for Grace,” said Lyndsey.<\/p>\n
“We were worried about her safety, about handing her over to a school.”<\/p>\n
But when Lyndsey was able to meet with school leaders, their response, she said, was “amazing”. <\/p>\n
Describing their approach as “proactive and holistic”, she said staff received epilepsy training sessions to which Lyndsey was invited so she could explain Grace’s seizures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Epilepsy is a brain condition that causes repeated, unprovoked seizures due to sudden bursts of abnormal electrical activity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}