‘It was very scary for us and for her’

On Nov 15, Maria O’Malley’s body stiffened, she lost consciousness and her limbs began to jerk.

The epileptic seizure continued for three or four minutes. It took close to quarter of an hour before she came around.

“It was very scary for us and for her,” her mother Catherine said. “It was a very, very strong seizure, more severe than anything she had before or since.”