well, I've never had a TC (so far! Hopefully I haven't just jinxed it...) but I do know that's not generally how seizures go, unless it's extremely bizarre. You generally wake up pretty fast (she probably would have been awake again by the time he started to pick her up, but definitely before the hospital), and I can't imagine they'd hook her up to monitors after a seizure except the EEG-- but they wouldn't do that if they didn't know it was a seizure, and like I said she'd probably wake up pretty quickly but confused.
You can't really run tests for a seizure, unless she was having some sort of bizarre status epilepticus (i.e. the sort where you're completely still bit internally seizing), and if that was the case she wouldn't wake up on her own-- the doctors would be freaking out House style and shouting "I need 10 mg of ativan, stat!" and stuff, assuming they knew she had/was having seizures. It's important to note that having multiple seizures doesn't automatically equal epilepsy, though I guess if the doctor ran an EEG on her (but again, why would he unless he already knew she had a seizure?) he could potentially diagnose it at that point.
I know seizures can cause people to faint, but that's a relatively rare manifestation... and I would imagine if her parents were remotely well-to-do and loving and concerned about their daughters health (which they seem to be) they'd be current on the medicine. But that could vary, I guess. Anyhoo, it's mostly sound, but it might help to figure out why she was passed out for so long (and still woke up with an IQ in the triple digits, lol-- SE can cause major dips in that or death), why she has this super rare manifestation of epilepsy, why the doctor did a random EEG on someone who appeared to have just passed out before her parents got there, etc.
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You can't really run tests for a seizure, unless she was having some sort of bizarre status epilepticus (i.e. the sort where you're completely still bit internally seizing), and if that was the case she wouldn't wake up on her own-- the doctors would be freaking out House style and shouting "I need 10 mg of ativan, stat!" and stuff, assuming they knew she had/was having seizures. It's important to note that having multiple seizures doesn't automatically equal epilepsy, though I guess if the doctor ran an EEG on her (but again, why would he unless he already knew she had a seizure?) he could potentially diagnose it at that point.
I know seizures can cause people to faint, but that's a relatively rare manifestation... and I would imagine if her parents were remotely well-to-do and loving and concerned about their daughters health (which they seem to be) they'd be current on the medicine. But that could vary, I guess. Anyhoo, it's mostly sound, but it might help to figure out why she was passed out for so long (and still woke up with an IQ in the triple digits, lol-- SE can cause major dips in that or death), why she has this super rare manifestation of epilepsy, why the doctor did a random EEG on someone who appeared to have just passed out before her parents got there, etc.
Hope that helps!