My story on my epilepsy

It's been 2 almost 3 years since I was diagnosed with Coxsackie virus and meningitis and I will tell yourself it was the hardest thing that could ever happen to me. I was unable to walk from the spinal tap that they performed on me and wasn't able to keep food down for at least for 4 days. I had these excruciating headaches that were worse then migraines and would make me vomit , so my parents took me to childrens hospital in L.A where I was hospitalized for a month. After coming out from the hospital I still had the same symptoms but developed memory loss and feeling electrical sharp pains in any side of my head. With what side I had the electrical sharp pain I would have face paralyzation. About a month later I also developed a "Blank stare" as they would describe it to me and I wouldn't remember anything from that moment. My parents took me to a neurologist where they performed a "EGG" on me to check my brain waves and the results came out to be that I was having epilepsy seizures .They called it "absences seizures "where I would blank out and not remember anything. My neurologist has me taking "lamotrigine"where I take 8 pills a day . I was a freshman in high school when this happened and I am now a junior still living with this, my experience with this is something that I wouldn't wish anybody else to have. My grades have went down the drain, my teachers don't want to work with me because Im unable to contain the correct information tha I need to remember. My friends have grown tired of needing to remind me about things but I'm also blessed that my true friends except me for who I am now and make brains games to help me memorize different things. My life has been changed with a blink of an eye and I hope and pray that everyone that can relate to me about this that you can be strong and believe that there is hope and beauty behind all of this . I'm new to this site but I believe that we are family that will get through this together! God Bless you all .