dear Sue

thanks, i will tell my friend that, about the cloth. maybe they can do that. that might be pleasant for her anyway. especially with the heat we are having lately.

i understand the need for seizure control in a person 1. whose functioning is compromised by seizures or 2. whose seizures cause them discomfort. neither is the case here. and from observations in hospital, she does not seize frequently.

the only rationale that comes to mind, in favor of medicating here, is a concern of other types of seizures developing - maybe they were trying to pre-emptively treat other types of seizures?

wouldn't it be better to wait and see if any develop, considering she does NOT have healthy liver and kidneys? it seems to me any AED would be more dangerous for her than a yet-to-happen, other-than-absence-type seizure.

what is your opinion - regarding the whole "premedicating" seizures which do not yet exist, in an elderly woman in vegetative state?

~ waves ~