Trajedy for John Travolta and Kelly Preston

[a1mamacat]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... liday.html

A parent's worst nightmare

[BackInTex]

How terrible.

[Catfish]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... liday.html

A parent's worst nightmare

Indeed. My thoughts and prayers are with them. And before it all starts, I do care.

[tlynn78]

heartbreaking.


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[peacock2121]

How very sad.

[ghostjmf]

This happened with a family my family knows years ago; the kid had epilepsy, not Kawasaki's, but same diff. Older kids don't want to have an escort everywhere, especially the bathroom.

[christie1111]

How terrible. They seem like very caring parents.

Thoughts and prayers to the family and friends.

[dimmzy]

Yikes. The same thing happened to that soap opera star, Hunter Tylo. Her son fell into a pool ...

I had never heard that the son had any disorder. I had thought it was a little odd that he wasn't in the movies like his sister; on the other hand, some teens might prefer to shun the limelight.

[mellytu74]

I'd never heard of the disease until I read the story.

How very heartbreaking for them.

[peacock2121]

Sting is hearing that there are drugs he could have taken to manage the seizures. He is hearing Scientology might get into the headlines about this. What with the churches stance on drugs and all.

I hope he just misheard or whoever speculated that is wrong.

[ghostjmf]

There are always drugs you can take to manage seizures. Sometimes they don't work so well for some people. And sometimes they work for seizure reduction, but zone the people out so much that the people cut back on or stop taking them entirely because of that. If the people are adults, that's their call, as long as they are not adults who drive (or operate any other heavy machinery, etc).

But I had forgotten all about the Scientology anti-drug stance in this thing. I thought they were just anti certain drugs, mainly behavior-mod drugs, not all drugs, as Christian Scientists are. If Scientology's hair-brained theories played a part in this kid's treatment regimen; well, there's nothing much worse you can really do to the parents after what has already happened, but I wish the kid had had a chance.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

I have read that Jett was very austistic but his parents were in denial because that diagnosis doesn't fit in with Scientology teaching.

[SportsFan68]

Sting is hearing that there are drugs he could have taken to manage the seizures. He is hearing Scientology might get into the headlines about this. What with the churches stance on drugs and all.

I hope he just misheard or whoever speculated that is wrong.

I hope that too, but I fear it was correct.

An old friend has epilepsy and still had seizures despite medication. One day he decided to quit drinking, without any input from his doc, and has never had another seizure, or another drink either. The doc applauded the development but said he had no idea how that could work. It could also be that he just grew out of them -- he was about 21 at the time.

[christie1111]

Sting is hearing that there are drugs he could have taken to manage the seizures. He is hearing Scientology might get into the headlines about this. What with the churches stance on drugs and all.

I hope he just misheard or whoever speculated that is wrong.

I hope that too, but I fear it was correct.

An old friend has epilepsy and still had seizures despite medication. One day he decided to quit drinking, without any input from his doc, and has never had another seizure, or another drink either. The doc applauded the development but said he had no idea how that could work. It could also be that he just grew out of them -- he was about 21 at the time.

My brother in CT is an epileptic. Has been since about 12 yo. It was so life threatening at the age of about 23 that he was going to die due to the seizures, or the amount of valium, etc they needed to pump into him to get him out of the the grand mal status attacks. Due to his good health otherwise, he had 2 very majorly scary surgeries. One was at UCLA, where he had a a bleed in his brain during surgery and tecnically died on the opreation table. After healing they sent him to Yale-NH where he had the second surgery. After monitoring him, they found where the 'short circuit' happened before it globalized and removed it.

He walked out of the hospital on his 25th birthday. He is now 47 with a wife (the one with oral cancer) and kid.

He has never had a drink in his life due to the anti-epilepsy meds. I am sure anyone using anti-seizure meds are advised by their doctor not to drink. The drugs are very strong and even a small increase can make him very sleepy/dopey. He still will occasionally have seizures, but they are very mild.


I know it is easy to speculate about a famous person's choices and beliefs. But they seemed to be loving, caring parents.

I don't know how speculation about what choices they made is helpful, but I guess it will happen in high profile cases like this.