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1. Faking seizures?

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   I realize now that I may have come in here with a very unfair characterization of my student, but I feel like this one is even more unfair. She is not the type of person who milks her disability and/or illness for all that it is worth. I would say, o...

2. Faking seizures?

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   At this point, neither do I. That is pretty much exactly what the student said to me, the first time I asked her why she prefers not to have EMS involved. Sarcasm included. The truth is, in many situations it would just be easier for *us* to be ab...

3. Faking seizures?

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   No doubt. But I mean things like how spasticity affects movement, and that it can cause muscle and bone contractures in the long run. That is something I only discovered yesterday, after someone here had told me to go read about CP and related condit...

4. Faking seizures?

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   To be fair, I don't think she really believes this. I think it's become a running joke between her and some of her friends/confidants. It's pretty clear that she hates hospitals, and she's willing to avoid them at all costs. But when the ambulance ac...

5. Faking seizures?

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   I don't for a minute believe that she would ever go to court trying to blame us for the consequences of one of her seizures. if she'd been the type to do that, I'm sure she would have found a reason and a victim already. That said, I don't know her p...

6. Faking seizures?

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   @ixchel: I believe, going by my newly gained knowledge of different types of seizure activity, that your description of walking into an ER while having an active seizure, means your seizures are (sometimes?) simple partials. My student has generaliz...

7. Faking seizures?

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   Oh, no. She is without question one of the brightest people I've ever met. She joked once that she probably knows more about medicine than many first-year residents do. I believe her. She basically never takes notes in class (apparently writing is s...

8. Faking seizures?

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   I *have* asked the student why she doesn't want EMS involved. Basically, her story is that every time someone calls an ambulance, it means a doctor in the ED (she calls them student-sorcerers) will tell her that (a) they can't do anything about this...

9. Faking seizures?

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   We do have one. It states, literally: "Emergency Medical Services should be contacted in all situations that are deemed, by any member of the staff, to be a genuine emergency." That still leaves me trying to assess what a genuine emergency is, in the...

10. Faking seizures?

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    Well, if I should respect her wishes *not* to be confronted with EMS in most cases, then I would like to know when I *do* call EMS. If I ask the student, she'll give me some variation on "when I'm dead, running on half my normal blood supply, or blue...

11. Faking seizures?

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    I appreciate the comments from people who have experience with clients who have both CP and epilepsy. I am just a teacher, not a medical professional. But knowing these things puts what I've seen in perspective. I consulted the Wikipedia page on cer...

12. Faking seizures?

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    @dishes: That could be true. But her elevated muscle tone gets much, much worse after she's had a seizure. Under normal circumstances, she has almost no impairment in her upper limbs. Not that I notice, anyway. And she herself has said that most of t...

13. Faking seizures?

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    Hi enuf, Actually, the person I am talking about is an adult, and she seems to have no family. Of course everyone has family, but you know what I mean: estranged from her parents, no partner, no children, and even her brother and sister live far awa...

14. Faking seizures?

    Grodo replied to Grodo's topic in Relations

    I imagine, then, that anyone can also say they are having a "pseudo-seizure" instead of faking it. Mind you, after hearing all of your opinions, I no longer think that this student is faking it. I'm just saying, "pseudo-seizure" seems like a cop-out ...

15. Faking seizures?

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    @blondy: No. As per privacy law, we can only ask about medical history before taking people on an overnight trip, which happens sometimes in compulsory education, but never (or almost never) with us. And even then, we are obligated to discard the for...