"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" - haunting descriptioon

I'm only half way on the book. It contains many subjects, history, health care system, cultural differences in healing, and epilepsy. From Hmong's perspective, an ethnic group from SouthEast Asia, having an epilepsy seizure is like "the spirit catches you, and you fall down." Lia, the little girl, who was otherwise robust and lively, had been fighting epilepsy, but medications had not been able to control her increasingly frequent seizures. Her pediatrician feared a deadly seizure episode was inevitable. Here it is on pg. 140, "The Big One"

I will continue to post tomorrow. Though the description was haunting, I am just too sleepy.