Kate Luna

Biology 1010
April 27, 2022

Reflection

For this reflection, I am supposed to write about my experience on writing my signature

assignment. For the signature assignment, I wrote about absence seizures. I wrote about that
because of my little sister. To give a little bit of a background story, my little sister was diagnosed
with absence seizures when she was 4 years old. One day, my sisters and I were playing
outside and my little sister kept falling. Everytime she would stand up, she would fall. My sister
and I were laughing because we thought it was funny, but it got to a point where it didn’t feel
right. We called my parents and they came outside and immediately took me and my sister to
my aunt’s house and they went to the hospital. That’s the day that my little sister was diagnosed
and was put on medication.
I never thought about doing research on this topic because I wasn’t interested in it. As I
got older and I started to understand more I wanted to learn more about this topic. When the
teacher said that we had to write a research paper based on anything that had to do with
biology, I immediately thought of my little sister. I always thought that when someone had a
seizure, it meant that they’re on the floor uncontrollably shaking with loss of consciousness.
When I started doing research for my signature assignment, I learned that there are different
forms of seizures that can vary from mild to extreme. My sister has the mild form of seizures
called absence seizure which is when you lose awareness and have staring episodes that can
last for a few seconds up to a couple of minutes.
To wrap this up, I decided to do my signature assignment on absence seizures because
of my little sister. I learned so much from this assignment and I am glad that I chose to research
this topic. It was very interesting to read about the different types of seizures, the different
symptoms that occur, and what treatments are used to help either get rid of the seizures or help
control them. It’s sad to know that doctors can’t give you a real answer if I can say as to what
exactly causes the seizures, we know that it’s a neurological wiring in the brain, but it’s not
known exactly why.