Have you done this?

• You administer your child's a.m. or p.m meds only to have your spouse walk in and say "I already gave him his meds".  

                         or, another version...

• You're on your way to work, your child has left for school, and you frantically phone your spouse in his car and ask "did you give him his meds this morning?...No?  Me either."

• Your child didn't finish his homework  the night before, and you know if you hadn't had the second glass of wine you could have sat down with him and done it and you email the teacher in the morning and play the epilepsy card?  "It was a rough night...I hope you understand."

• You scold your child for whatever thing you've lost patience with on that particular day and he slides to the floor and has a seizure?

• You make an excuse to skip your friend's child's bar mitzvah/ confirmation/sweet sixteen party/graduation extravaganza/school play/band performance/athletic award night/olympic trials etc... because you can't bear to be immersed in typical kids' success stories?

• You have a third glass of wine/gin and tonic/beer instead?

• You take the hairbrush away from your child, who doesn't give a rats ass about how he looks, and brush his hair over the surgery scars to try and hide them for him?

• You try to fly the "Well, honey, if we can't beat epilepsy, maybe we can make friends with it."

• You hover and linger and cajole and make a general nuisance of yourself? 

You've never done any of these things?  Me either.