After the loss of his fiancé to SUDEP, Geoff Applegate a single-parent was left coping with his own grief while also learning how to help his young son understand the loss of his mother.
Category Archives: Family
Epilepsy Education and Seizure Safety in Schools
When Paul St. Pierre encountered a lack of understanding of epilepsy at his school, he and his mother, Colleen, took action to ensure that all schools in the state of New Jersey were educated on epilepsy and seizure safety.
Raising A Child with Both Autism and Epilepsy
Author and journalist Liane Kupferberg Carter speaks to us about her journey raising a son with a dual diagnosis of autism and epilepsy.
Growing Up Alongside a Sibling with Epilepsy
College students Emma Cardwell and Nathan Bliss discuss their experiences growing up with a sibling who has epilepsy.
Community, Fatherhood, and Seizures
Alek Stewart has lived with seizures since he was a teenager. But a sudden and dramatic increase in frequency caused Alek and his wife Brittany to make adjustments to their daily lives, and inspired them to create a community, build epilepsy awareness, and support scientific research.
Helping Your Teen Navigate Epilepsy
We talk to Angie Froehlich about parenting a teenage daughter living with epilepsy.
Mourning Your Idealized Life: Resilience, Love and Acceptance
Kelly and Miguel Cervantes discuss coping with the impacts and challenges of parenting a child with special needs in a never-seen episode recorded in November 2018.
Parenting, Epilepsy and COVID19
Hear how one mother is keeping her three children, one of whom has epilepsy, safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Growing Pains: Living with a Sibling with Epilepsy
Find out how growing up around siblings with epilepsy shapes children’s lives.
School Nurse Shortages: The Challenges Students and Families Face
Find out how one family impacted by epilepsy is affected daily by the national school nurse shortage.