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Warpy

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7. His staff certainly seems to know

Reply to 70sEraVet (Reply #6)

Sat Sep 2, 2023, 07:45 PM

Sep 2023

and anyone who's watched him freeze up in public know knows.

Absence seizures are generally well controlled with medication. Maybe they haven' t found the right one. Or maybe he hasn't been to see a neurologist, hoping nobody outside his staff notices anything (he hasn't noticed, he's unaware) and he's terrified he'll be forced out before he's ready to die on the job.

I doubt this started as a result of his serious fall. I'm betting that whatever this is caused that fall.

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Just curious when the Turtle froze, did he realize that something was happening? [View all] question everything Sep 2023 OP

Good question. I had a 'senior moment' awhile ago. It went like this.. Joinfortmill Sep 2023 #1

So many episodes are similar bucolic_frolic Sep 2023 #2

I think it might be epilepsy. AndyS Sep 2023 #3

He doesn't seem aware Warpy Sep 2023 #4

My guess is, he has had the neuro workup. But he is stubbornly holding on to his power,... 70sEraVet Sep 2023 #6

His staff certainly seems to know Warpy Sep 2023 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Fullduplexxx Sep 2023 #5