Julie has had seizures at the Milwaukee Zoo. She’s had seizures at Disney World...
As Adam napped peacefully after a trip to the doctor..., I went for a run, unaware of how our lives were about to change...
Ian was precocious; there were no two ways around it. I tried to hide my pride, but....
On August 6, 2001, our little boy was born in conditions that were not optimal...
It began with one terrifying phone call...
So many stories about epilepsy are so heart wrenching that I feel a twinge of guilt telling my story....
The morning after my only child Matthew was born, I had a stroke. To save my life, doctors performed emergency brain surgery...
I awoke feeling so proud on Elizabeth's 16th birthday. Despite being born severely disabled...
The other night... our 10-year-old daughter Rebecca had what we think was her 10,000th epileptic seizure...
For the rest of our lives, we will never forget February 2, 1999. It’s a day that forever changed our lives...
Our son Chris was a senior in college, ten weeks shy of graduation...
If you are reading this, it is probably because someone you love suffers from seizures...
The first time I laid eyes on my son Calvin he was twenty-one hours old....
I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 1999, halfway through my sophomore year of college...
For me, the hardest part of Charlie’s seizures was seeing his eyes. You don’t hear much about the eyes...
Initially we were told by the pediatrician that it was nothing—that she had simply been moving her eyes in an unusual way...
If I told you about the day our lives changed forever, when I found her lying blue and limp in her crib...
At 15 months, our son Evan was a typical child. Suddenly, that all changed...
Nothing prepares one for opening the bedroom door and finding their most beloved treasure gone....
My heart breaks, again, As a piece of glass shatters, fragments scatter,...
Before the age of two, Michael was developing normally. He was a happy, healthy toddler...
My husband Pat deployed to Iraq with the Arrowhead brigade in June 20...
The thing I remember most about Amanda’s epilepsy diagnosis is stepping outside the hospital doors one blue-skied summer day...
According to my records, I've witnessed 18,737 seizures - a remarkable number...
