concerned child

I am writing this for help for my father.

For about 15 years my father has been having what we have called "spells". At first he would just become incoherent and become someone else. He had two different types, one was a gentle person who would do anything you told him to do. Almost like a child. The other one was ver violent, didn't do anything you told him. He would just walk and walk. This is how they started. Then about 5-6 years ago, he started to go into this unconcious state. He would kind of go to sleep, then his feet would start moving like he was walking then running. He would tighten up and then become very loose. He would wake up, supposedly, and either be attracted to the light and want to stare into it or touch it. We had to blow our our pilots lights on our range top before. He is sometime attracted to sounds. He just had one today and my brother and nephews were upstairs playing and he was sound asleep. He heard them and tried to get up and go to the noise. When he does finally come out of these "spells" he does not remember anything about what just happened. My family and I have been so use to it that all we do is try to hold him back and keep him out of danger. We lock our doors because he will try to get out. This is dangerous for him because he will sometimes just pass out no matter were he is. We have gone to see many doctors about this and only one has said that it is a type of epilepsy. Nothing was done to treat him though. That last time we went to see a doctor was about a year and a half ago. They stopped after he was diagnosed with epilepsy. They just started back up again back in November. I would really appreciate any feed back anyone can give. Thank you and god bless.

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[This message has been edited by concerned child (edited 02-24-2001).]