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Please help me
Fri, 01/20/2017 - 15:15Topic: Young Adults
Hello,
My name is Maria, nickname Mixi, and i was born with epilepsy.
I'm currently 21 but turns 22 in June this year, I have two jobs; childminder at a kindergarden and administrator as well as research assistent (current study is about edema and cancer, LKG, and earlier this week I got into university/college!
Now, we got this assignment to write an argumenting essay about any topic - Since I have it myself and think it's a very important matter, I decided to write an essay about Informing schools and work places more about epilepsy.
My question is; What might be pros (good points) about it?
What might be cons (bad points) about it?
Since it's meant to be in impersonal text I'd very much appreciate your thoughts and opinions about this, because I myself can only think of why it would be good to inform schools and work places more about epilepsy!
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Mixi
I think schools should be
Submitted by Jessmullz96 on Mon, 2017-03-20 - 01:27
I think schools should be well informed about absent seizures. They can progress into grand mals, which is what happened to me once, and I also had something that first resembled an absent seizure that turned into a complex partial seizure. Now I just get simple partial seizures (psychic) since I'm religiously on 400 mg of lamotrigene, but absent seizures are important because they can be easy to miss at first and then develop into something severe.