Life with epilepsy: 'It looked like my daughter was having a stroke'

Signs of epilepsy vary according to the condition, and it doesn’t always involve loss of consciousness or shaking of the limbs, as Aisling Allan discovered when her daughter had a seizure 

Aisling Allan and her daughter Bonnie, who was diagnosed with epilepsy. Picture: Clare Keogh

ON September 29 last year, Aisling Allan and her husband Seán waved their three children Áine May, 12; Aindriú, 10; and six-year-old Bonnie off on the bus to the gaelscoil in Carrigaline.

Shortly afterwards, Allan received a text from Áine May saying that Bonnie was ill, and she went to the school immediately.