The eight-year-old had been having episodes for two years before the diagnosis landed. Some were obvious: he would lose consciousness, fall, or stop mid-activity and stare. Others looked like nothing at all. He would simply start laughing, at nothing, and then stop.
The laughing was the seizure. Doctors at the Federal Medical Centre in Umuahia, Nigeria, documented the case in the Nigerian Medical Journal, and the detail that makes it worth reading is where the electrical activity was coming from.
