KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) — One young athlete in Kinston is advocating for a disability he was recently diagnosed with.
Bentlee Quinn is a fifth grader at Moss Hill Elementary School and plays baseball. In April, he was playing in a game and got hit in the head with a baseball while on defense. He developed a bump on his head that sent him into concussion protocol. Not long after, he started having seizures.
His first few seizures came from the concussion, and the neurologists said they came from his body, not his brain, which is where normal seizures come from. He had multiple seizures in one night, one of them lasting well over an hour.
Quinn has had many hospital visits, EEGs, scans and medication changes. After a while, they determined his next few seizures did stem from his brain and they later diagnosed him with Epilepsy.
He says he’d like to thank his brother, sister, mom, school bus driver and principal at Moss Hill for their help. Click the video above to learn more about his story.