Epileptic Mother to Receive Counselling

Webster, we’ve confirmed has suffered with epilepsy since childhood. She is an only child and lost her mother to cancer over a year ago. Residents who know her say that her daughter brought tremendous joy to her, but unfortunately, the neurological disorder caused the death of her baby.  Webster was also a member of the Belize Brain Awareness Society that works along with persons afflicted with various neurological conditions. News Five spoke with Kaylia Nunez, who has been in contact with Webster since the incident.

Voice of: Kaylia Nunez, Founder, Belize Brain Awareness Society

“Her challenge has always been seizures. She has an acute type of seizure that sometimes is very damaging. She had been explaining and complaining to us constantly so it is something that we are very familiar with in terms of her case. So it was nothing that was said about the situation that was a lie about her diagnostic. She does trouble with this particular illness. Most of the time, a lot of the seizures causes a certain type of strength and aggression with uncontrollable shake and grip that they can’t explain. Sometimes they fall unconscious, sometimes they hurt themselves. Sometimes in other cases, may hurt someone else and it is all in the sense of neuroscience. At this point in time, we will be making sure that she gets a check up, she will be going through some therapy from the organization and we will be making sure that the public understand that incidents in terms of seizures and epilepsy are understood and it is unfortunate that this happened.”