Epilepsy, almost blind and developing slowly???

[smurfette2031]

Hi, im very new here but ive been wondering if anyone here can help me. My sister and I are twins. we are 24. She has a 5 month old beautiful baby girl. When her baby was born she had to stay in hospital for 3 weeks because she kept on having epileptic seizures, And she had so much seizures that she had to be put on steroids, shes only 5 months old.

The thing is she has Epilepsy and she also cant see properly, and is developing slowly. What does this mean? They said the cause was that my sister had the gene (What gene? i dont really know) but so did her husband, and his was much more dominant or something.
Does this mean she wont grow up to be a normal little girl? does this mean her mental ability will develop slowly? will she never see properly again? and also, Would I have this gene as well?

Im really sad for my twin sister, i love her and her baby very much, i cry all the time, I dont understand what excatly is going on, so if any dr or anybody, who would have any knowledge or information about this please dont hesitate to write to me. I greatly appreciate it.

Thankyou

[smurfette2031]

Nelliemac

thansk for ur input, it may well be occipital lobe epilepsy. we wont know for sure until all tests are done. As long as the child is healthy and happy thats the main thing everything else can be dealt with.

Thanks
Smurfette

[Nelliemac]

Does the baby have occipital lobe epilepsy. My 7 year old son does and your eyesight is controlled in the occipital lobe. His eyesight is affected and he also is not learning at the same rate as the other children at school. He is very healthy and happy otherwise. If you met him, you would never know anything is different but he is a bit uncoordinated as well. I would be interested in knowing her epilepsy is in the occipital lobe.

[mariehiscox25]

i have Epilepsy as well and i am  not a twin but i had a baby girl and i have had it since i was born, it is heretiry or something, i am  not too sure how it works. all i know is there is lots of tests and pills and bloodwork to do. and its somewhat of a normal life i am  not sure of the eyes tho haven't heard about that before.

[smurfette2031]

They also said that if she got pregnant again there is a 25% chance that it could happen again.