Irvine511
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to be fair to the Travoltas, this is from TMZ:
(i posted this in ZS)
i also just returned from vacation where i visited a friend from college. less than 3 years after graduation, she awoke with a splitting headache and then collapsed in the shower that morning. her roommates had the presence of mind to quickly call an ambulance and that probably saved her life. she was in a coma for 2 weeks and it was determined that she had a major stroke. she spent a few years in a wheelchair and had to re-learn nearly everything we take for granted (addition, telling time, the alphabet, etc.) she's doing well and improving and manages to walk on her own with some assistance, but it's absolutely shocking to see what a brain malfunction can do to a healthy, very bright, then 25 year old. no warning, no prior health problems, nothing.
(i posted this in ZS)
John Travolta's Son: Meds Ultimately Did Harm
Posted Jan 4th 2009 12:29PM by TMZ Staff
TMZ has learned more about the medical condition of John Travolta's son, Jett, and the medication that ultimately didn't work.
We're now told the grand mal seizures Jett suffered were "frequent and extremely serious." Travolta's lawyers, Michael Ossi and Michael McDermott, tell us "each seizure was like a death," with Jett losing consciousness and convulsing.
We now know Jett was taking a drug called Depakote, a strong anti-seizure medication. There have been reports Travolta refused to give his son anti-seizure meds because of Scientology but those stories are not true.
Jett had been having seizures on an average of every four days, until he started taking Depakote. Ossi and McDermott say the drug initially worked, reducing the frequency to approximately once every three weeks.
Jett took Depakote for "several years," but it eventually lost its effectiveness, according to Ossi and McDermott. They say the Travoltas were concerned about possible physical damage. And, Jett went back to having around one seizure a week. So Travolta and Preston, after consulting neurosurgeons, stopped administering the drug. No one is suggesting withdrawal of the medicine in any way caused the fatal episode.
i also just returned from vacation where i visited a friend from college. less than 3 years after graduation, she awoke with a splitting headache and then collapsed in the shower that morning. her roommates had the presence of mind to quickly call an ambulance and that probably saved her life. she was in a coma for 2 weeks and it was determined that she had a major stroke. she spent a few years in a wheelchair and had to re-learn nearly everything we take for granted (addition, telling time, the alphabet, etc.) she's doing well and improving and manages to walk on her own with some assistance, but it's absolutely shocking to see what a brain malfunction can do to a healthy, very bright, then 25 year old. no warning, no prior health problems, nothing.