A Northumberland mam has spoken of her anguish as her daughter is suffering fifty to sixty seizures a day.
Fourteen-year-old Olivia Anderson was diagnosed with focal epilepsy, a neurological condition in which the predominant symptom is recurring seizures that affect one hemisphere of the brain, in 2020 but she also has non-epileptic seizures which can cause her convulsions, paralysis, physical and verbal ticks, and hallucinations. However she has now reverted to a "toddler stage", which sees her "presenting a lot younger than herself" according to mam Catherine Arries.
Catherine took Olivia to A and E on October 12 after weeks of her constantly presenting younger and the symptoms mentioned above. She claims that the doctors told her because it was specialist, Olivia would be passed onto the neurology department at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
