The couple’s son, Rion, then 13, had come down with a cold on Christmas Day and complained of a headache. And while Rion has fully recovered, the emotional fallout from his frightening illness took longer for his mother to overcome. Amy C. Hughes with son Rion, whose life-threatening seizure went unexplained for days and seemed impervious to anticonvulsants. The seizures suggested a possible overdose, and a CT scan showed no signs of a head injury, another cause of seizures. In addition to the severity of the seizure they were struggling to control, doctors were worried about its extremely long duration.

Source: Washington Post December 16, 2017 12:56 UTC