I know this is a totally inappropriate image for this post, but I couldn't resist it! A-a-a-w - how cute is THAT?!
I've done a fair bit of work with people with epilepsy over the years, and I'm curious as to how the Coronation Street boffins will handle David Platt's current epilepsy storyline. It's potentially very interesting. Sam Robertson, who played Corrie's Adam Barlow a year or two back, had a similar storyline in the BBC1 Scotland soap, River City, quite recently, and it was pretty well done, with all sorts of drama about a young man struggling to come to terms with the diagnosis, treatment and so forth.
As far as the Coronation Street version goes, at first I was disappointed not to see a full "tonic clonic" seizure shown, but then I thought, well, it could be pretty difficult to do that, and besides, it is quite good to show that there are different forms of epilepsy.
At any rate, I'll be interested to see how it all works out once the dust settles and he has to consider the implications if the diagnosis is confirmed. At the moment, David seems relieved that he has a possible way out of the attempted murder charge as well as being able to show Graeme and Tina that he really didn't intend any harm.
There is information about epilepsy and where you can make a comment about how the storyline is being handled, here .
