My post to a news website regarding Jett Travolta.

Jett Travolta passed away the morning of January 2nd - apparently he had a seizure, hit his head on the bathtub or the toilet, and passed away. He was born April 13, 1992 - 4 months before Chase was. I had no idea Jett was suffering from seziures and developmental disabilities, and my heart goes out to the Travoltas.

There has been so much negative news about this incident - and last night I got really mad reading one about the nanny - asking what his qualifications were to care for a person with medical needs. Here is my rebuttal to the newspaper:

There are thousands of children who suffer from seizures - even as devastating as Jett's - that are cared for by "untrained individuals" - their parents. Any individual can be trained to care for a child with seizures - from their parents, to their babysitters, their teachers, and their friends.

Not every seizure medication works - I should know because I have a 16 year old son who has suffered from epilepsy since the age of 3. He has taken every seizure medication the doctors suggested, including at one time a cocktail of 4 different medications - to the point of the doctors calling him overmedicated. Even then, his seizures have never been controlled. I personally know of at least 2 other individuals who were taking seizure medication that had a seizure in a bathroom, hit their head and died from it.

It is entirely the Travoltas and their physician's call as to what medications he should or should not have been on - and whether Jett was autistic or not. I personally have asked for 4 second opinions about my child because I've felt he is autistic - the medical community would not agree with me.

People should never be so quick to judge until they've walked the walk those parents have been through - you just can't know - and it's really no one else's business.

This family and the nanny have had their worst nightmare come true. I personally have spent 12 years listening to my son sleep over a baby monitor- listening for seizures. Trust me - there is no way that I could have heard every seizure once I went to sleep in the last 12 years - it is not feasibly possible.

This poor family needs to be left alone to grieve - and all the attacks on them need to stop.

Oh - and you know what - I am a Scientologist. I have NEVER been told by the church that my son should not take seizure medication - nor that I should not seek medical advice.

Please let this family grieve their loss - and stop the attacks!