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My Story with Refractory Epilepsy and Amnesia
Wed, 01/16/2019 - 20:11Topic: Share Your Story
If you want to know my story that with Epilepsy here are three great YouTube videos I made showing my history and experience over the past 6 and a half years with this condition (Refractory Epilepsy with partial Retrograde and a form of Anterograde Amnesia). It all started mid 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYjafZn6DZY (Newest...comically find out what I’ve been up to this past year)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzyEXWISiLY (Originals...the crying one from celebrating my 5th year with epilepsy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Bh5ncKuLU (Originals...the laughing one celebrating my 5th year with epilepsy)
Hi jblowitski,I am new to
Submitted by Mblake on Sat, 2019-02-02 - 21:29
Hi jblowitski,I am new to this site and I just watched all 3 of your YouTube videos and I loved them! You have such a wonderful and positive attitude with all that you've been through.I'm 46 years old and I've been dealing with epilepsy, pretty much since I was in grade school and I know how challenging this disability can be, of course with everyone being on their own level. When I was in grade school, I had Petit Mal Seizures, now their called Absence Seizures. They went away approximately the time of entering the 6th grade. But around 20 years ago they came back. The only thing is, this time they came back as Complex Partial Seizures and with these, I have unfortunately damaged several parts of myself because of them. After 20 years of too many medications to recall all the names of, surgery and even a neurologist and an epileptologist that can't get it under control, and bouts of depression, your story is still very uplifting. Thank you so much for sharing!God bless!M Blake