However, News of the World has posted one picture at the link, that we had to include due to it being the source of information. Source: News of the World. Romeo Beckham has epilepsy. By peoplestaff Updated November 05, AM. The following summer, Romeo made headlines when he participated in the children's race at the London Marathon. He also briefly followed the footsteps of his soccer star father, as he was once a prospect at Arsenal's youth academy.
However, he decided to devote his attention to other endeavors, and give up the sport. Luckily, David took the news relatively well. He's since been seen taking a shining to tennis, with champion tennis player Grigor Dimitrov even saying he has "a lot of potential. It's amazing what children can accomplish when they don't let their conditions define them! Toggle navigation. Search Go! US Weekly. Four Four Two. World Health Organization. BBC Sport. She says:. I remember the morning of Victoria's first seizure very clearly; everything about that morning is so vivid in my mind.
Victoria had been unwell for a few days with a sore throat, high temperature and ulcers down her throat. She was off school on a home study day to revise for her end of year exams.
Victoria had climbed into our bed - it was 8. I went down to the kitchen to make breakfast and called up to Victoria asking her did she feel like tea and toast. I heard her let out a roar and went upstairs to see what was wrong. When I went into the room, her head was buried underneath a pillow. At first, I thought she was joking around, but when I realised she was having a seizure I called immediately. Epilepsy is not diagnosed after one seizure and various tests and scans were carried out on Victoria - it wasn't until she had a second seizure five months later that the neurologist confirmed she had epilepsy.
The type of seizure Victoria takes is called tonic-clonic. During a seizure, she would fall to the ground and go really stiff, then move jerkily for a few minutes. Under her eyes and around her mouth turn blue, which is quite scary to witness. She has had six seizures so far, and each time it has taken more or less two months to recover. In the past, she has returned to school only to take time off a few days later with severe headaches.
Four of the seizures have occurred while she's been awake in bed and the other two when she's been standing up. My husband and I have first aid skills. However, when it's your own child you have to administer it to, it can be quite shocking. I always hold Victoria's hand and comfort her throughout her seizures, reassuring her that she's going to be ok and that mummy and daddy are with her.
The neurologist has advised us always to phone for an ambulance straight away and not to wait to see if Victoria comes out of it. She is usually semi-conscious in the ambulance and is given oxygen. When she comes around in the hospital, she can be teary, confused and disorientated.
She can usually remember me comforting her in the ambulance, however she has no recollection of her seizure. It is quite upsetting for Victoria as she really has no control over them and there are no symptoms or advance warning.
There was no history of epilepsy in either my or my partner's families and we don't really know what caused the first seizure. It was just one of those things. Victoria having this condition has certainly made me more aware as a parent. Before her seizures, I would have been perfectly OK with her staying at home watching TV if I was going shopping and she didn't want to come. Now, I make sure someone is with her all the time - she's never left at home by herself.
If her father or I can't be there, she stays at her grandparents' house. I understand that this can be frustrating for her, especially, as a teenager, she has got to live her own life. She needs to do what other teenagers do, without letting epilepsy take control, otherwise she would end up resenting us and her epilepsy. One day, Victoria was at her grandparents' house excitedly telling them about how she had won a place in the school choir It was quite upsetting for her grandparents to see her like that.
We've been lucky in that she hasn't seriously injured herself when she has fallen. All that flashing will start an epileptic fit. He hates flashes going off because he knows what they can do to him.
Normally he just shields his eyes but this was right in his face. There was nowhere for them to go.
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