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Article: How I coped with mum's epilepsy...
- Article from:
- Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
- Article date:
- April 20, 2007
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SCHOOLGIRL Sarah Jones is on her way to becoming an epilepsy expert.
Sarah, of Calverley, Leeds, does not have the condition herself.
But despite being just eight years old, she has stood up in front of an entire pack of Brownies to deliver a presentation about it.
And, when her mother Vicki was still experiencing seizures, Sarah would watch over her while making sure her two younger sisters were safe.
Sarah, a pupil at Calverley Parkside Primary School, said: "I learned how to keep my sisters safe if daddy wasn't in the house when mummy had a seizure. I had to get them in the same room as me.
"If daddy was in I had to go and tell him straight away. If we ...