Patients turn to brain surgery for treatment of epilepsy

Petronilla Kemunto who has been suffering from the condition explains her experience during the interview at AAR, Westlands, Nairobi. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

When Petronilah Kemunto was in high school, she would suffer bouts of zoning off and what seemed like deep daydreaming that lasted a few seconds.

Her teachers were concerned because this habit was affecting her school performance and her grades started falling. But what she and her teachers did not know was that this was not regular daydreaming. Years later, Kemunto learned that what she had been experiencing were partial seizures. All this time, she had been having epilepsy.