HERSHEY, Pa. — At 14 months old, Maverick Ranco started making strange faces by rolling his eyes straight up into his head. Before long, his parents said, they realized he wasn’t trying to make them laugh — or doing it on purpose at all. Then, out of nowhere, he started slumping to the floor like a rag doll.
“It was like the scene in the movie ‘Toy Story’ when Woody says, ‘Andy’s coming!’ and the toys just drop,” said Ezra Ranco, Maverick’s father.
Maverick, who lives in Harrisburg, was having drop seizures. He is one of the 456,000 kids in the United States with epilepsy, a brain disorder that causes seizures. Nearly 3 million adults are affected, too. Seizures can disrupt everyday life and increase the risk of injuries and accidents…