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Thursday, March 16, 2023
Fighting Epilepsy in Memory of Micayla
In 2005, my daughter Micayla was 4 years old. While talking to her, she went limp and appeared to have a seizure. I had never witnessed a seizure...
Driven To Spread Awareness
I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2015 after experiencing a second seizure in my college dorm room. The fear and confusion from being unable to...
Thursday, March 02, 2023
Living with PANDAS and Seizures
I was born with many health problems that will affect me for the rest of my life. One of them is a bad immune system. I have always had every...
Friday, February 17, 2023
Managing My Life with Epilepsy
I was nine years old when I had my first seizure. It was a snowy, cold winter day, and I was playing a hockey game at Norwich University with my team...
Don't Give Up
I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 5th grade. The onset is still a mystery, but it was possibly from a head injury . However, that was never really...
Don’t Stop Being Yourself
I was diagnosed with generalized epilepsy in 2010 after having a seizure that caused me to fall back on a hot, uncovered pipe. I was hospitalized for...
Epilepsy Has Given Me a Greater Purpose
Boom! Lightning struck inside my brain on Sunday, October 10, 2021, at 10:38 a.m. The forecast predicted high electrical neuron activity, but I was...
Your Epilepsy Journey Does Not Define Who You Are
In May 2015, I had my first electroencephalography (EEG) and was diagnosed with epilepsy. I was eight years old at the time. I had developed...
Empowering Others Like Me
One of the first seizures I remember was sitting on the couch in my family room, reading with my mom when I was around 5-7 years old. The next thing I...
Spreading Awareness Through Sharing My Story
My epilepsy journey is not one I chose or one I could have ever imagined, but it is the path that was chosen for me. Epilepsy is like a shadow, it...