When blindness or CP or whatever is a part of your life, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, then it simply doesn't occur to you to mention it. Particularly if there is something rather more pressing on your mind such as the rather scary sight of your toddler, your precious baby, having an epileptic fit, which even in this case is NOT a 24/7 thing that has just become part of day-to-day life. If the kid is only 18 months old then "routine" at an occurrence of about once a month is a strange word to use. It's not a novelty, but not an everyday thing and she's probably a bit different now to how she was 6 months ago. and finally, I suspect that the mother may have been told by the specialist that if there seems to be anything about the fit, perhaps it seems a little more severe or isn't stopping the way it should, or mum feels uneasy about it, she should call 999. Routine or otherwise, a fitting toddler is a fitting toddler and is, I feel, deserving of emergency medical attention. Yeah, the mum probably feels a bit silly for forgetting, in the worry of the moment, that not everyone has the same definitions of "normal" and that the ambulance crew didn't know about the CP/blindness/etc, but that doesn't make her a bad mother.