Thanks lettie!
It had got to the point where I was going to video these absences, to prove what is happening to my son, because the GP didn't seem to want to believe he was epileptic, even though we had seen him have the major seizures, had to fight to see a specialist. since then he has had scans and been diagnosed with frontal lobe epilepsy. He has been diagnosed now for 18 months and has had his medication raised, but the condition is still not under control properly. Waiting now to go back to the specialist, but it's such a long time between appointments.
People see him walking about apparently healthy, and think he is a skiver! >
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As things are at the moment no one will take him in his line of work until he is stabilised.