With a new year there is always new hope, Damonito is doing ok. He's still having grand mals but he is way better in January of 2016 than he was in January of 2015. He has a seizure disorder and that's not going away but he's better and we'll take what we can get.
He's up and moving around a lot more. He's still not very steady and too much activity can mean a difficult night with seizures but it's hard to keep him down. He repeats movement like someone with obsessive compulsive behaviors. According to the Epilepsy Foundation website, "OCD is uncommon (some would say rare) in people with epilepsy, but there
does seem to be a connection. OCD is seen most often in those with complex partial seizures originating in the temporal or frontal lobe, or seizures originating in the anterior cingulate gyrus, near the corpus callosum."
Damonito has generalized seizures which means his seizures happen in the entire brain. I'm not sure how that fits into the OCD model but observing Damonito for just a few minutes, you would realize he has obsessive compulsive disorder. Or some version of it.
For now, he's ok. We're looking forward to the new year.
