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Friday, October 04, 2024
Living in the Present Moment
I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was fourteen. At that moment, I wasn’t aware of how much it would impact me. I just continued my life normally. A...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024
Finding My Inner Peace
I was diagnosed with epilepsy after experiencing multiple tonic-clonic seizures in 2021. My journey has had its ups and downs and what felt like...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
How Photosensitive Epilepsy Impacts Me
My name is Autumn, and I am a sophomore in high school. About two years ago I was diagnosed with photosensitive epilepsy. This was a challenge for me...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Sharing Our Stories Is Powerful
My story begins before birth. One of my triplet siblings grew a vein from her placenta to mine to survive. Doctors said they had never seen anything...
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Finding Community in Camp
I am 19 and I have focal onset awareness seizures. I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 6 months old. Throughout childhood, I would have one a...
One Step Closer To Seizure-Free
According to my mom, I was born two weeks early with a lack of oxygen, which led to my first seizure at 8 months old. Throughout my childhood, doctors...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Building A Community of Support for Carter
My story started a year and a half ago right before Christmas. My sweet one-and-a-half-year-old son, Carter, suffered from a virus and spiked a...
Friday, August 23, 2024
Don't Be Afraid to Share Your Story
I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2008 at the age of 28. I was a single mom with two sons and the seizures came out of nowhere. The first seizure...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Finding Support on My Journey
I have a combination of epilepsy and receptive and expressive aphasia, a language disorder that affects how a person communicates, due to an...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Stay Strong and Keep Moving Forward
My name is Emmanuel. I am 35 years old, and I am from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1998, I was diagnosed with epilepsy following a severe seizure...