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Originally Posted by Tileman
I was married to an epileptic for 9 years and not only recognized her siezures but sometimes able to predict them moments before they happened. Even with that knowledge there were a couple of times I did wonder if she was seizing or attacking me!
Live with an epileptic long enough and you will recognize not all seizures are the same day in day out. Not all seizures force a collapse to the ground. Not all effected both sides of the body. Sometimes it was only hands flying about. No way in hell can anyone convince me it's not possible to mistake a seizure for an attack. I've been there, I've lived it and others have witnessed it.
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The seizure was obviously bad enough for the brother, whom was there and was informing the police that it was a seizure, to have called for an ambulance. And in actuality, when the ambulance was called for, surely the dispatcher relayed that it was an epileptic seizure, so both the police and the paramedics should have been prepared for this.
Certainly not all seizures are the same. My grandmother suffered with grand-maul's. She was particularly belligerent when coming out of one, but totally unaware of what she was doing. I would have seriously tried to hurt anyone that would have tasered her during one of her seizures.