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One morning, in 2012, my wife and I were viewing the footage from a CCTV
camera, setup in our son’s bedroom. Our son is called Tom. Tom suffers from
Dravet syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic dysfunction of the brain, and most
seizure activity occurs at night-time. Tom had a seizure alarm under his
mattress that detected movements during a tonic-clinic seizure and an audible
monitor to detect any gasps or noises ...

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"From launch, we’ve gone from
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t was during this playback, that we
discovered we had missed a
prolonged seizure that occurred
during the night. Tom’s movements
were not enough to activate the under
mattress alarm and he had his face
buried in his pillow, so no noise was
picked up. We could have lost him.
It was a terrible concern and so we
set about researching monitoring
systems to see if there was something
that could sufficiently meet Tom’s
needs ...
Read the full story here ...

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