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seizure dogs
Mon, 02/16/2015 - 07:51 My name is Jeff and I am a single father with epilepsy that is not being controlled by medicine yet. I have no sense on when they are coming to I would like to know if a service dog will help me cause I am sick of getting hurt or not having the knowledge of when on is coming. I am a shands paitcient but they are baffled to and epilepsy dogs are not covered by medicare so his can I get one and if there is any help for me getting one. I have had 45 episodes since Christmas and they are getting worse I take vimpat and zonagrain for medicine. Please I really need some kind of help.
Jeff if you want information
Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2015-02-17 - 11:14
Jeff if you want information about service dogs then call the 24/7 help line. That number can be brought up in the help section of from this page. In the upper left side of this page or way down near the bottom. They will answer many of your questions and they also have numbers to offices that provode the dogs