FishRook
by James Coulter
Five-year-old Dillinger has been diagnosed with epilepsy for one year. When he turned four years old, he was suffering up to 70 seizures per day, and his poor parents didn’t know why.
“We don’t know why they started,” his mother, Glenda, said. “They tested him for about everything.”
One month after his fourth birthday, he was diagnosed with epilepsy. His seizures were eventually controlled using pharmaceutical CBD oil. Even then, poor Dillinger suffered from seizures, nearly 70 per day.
His parents took him to Orlando, where the doctors diagnosed him with frontal lobe epilepsy with secondary generalization. As explained by Cleveland Clinic, his disorder makes it so that his seizures “start in one area of the brain instead of multiple areas.”
“It progressed to where [his seizures are] covering his whole brain,” his mother explained. “They told us that they want to start looking into surgical fixes for him because his seizures are not…
