This week on Seizing Life® we talk seizure alert dogs. Jessa Kenworthy of 4 Paws for Ability provides everything you always wanted to know about seizure alert dogs and how they serve those living with epilepsy.
Category Archives: Living with Epilepsy
Determination and New Technology Lead to Successful Epilepsy Surgery
This week epilepsy advocate and mother Kate Neale Cooper explains how a new diagnostic tool enabled doctors to localize her daughter’s seizures after 16-years and ultimately perform successful epilepsy surgery.
Growing Up with Epilepsy Leads to Making Movies About It
Filmmaker Miles Levin discusses growing-up with epilepsy and turning his experiences into the award-winning short film “Under the Lights”.
A Parent’s Guide to Your Child’s Epilepsy Diagnosis and Treatment
Child neurologist, Dr. Doug Nordli provides a guide for parents of children with epilepsy to help navigate diagnosis, physicians, and treatment decisions.
Rare Epilepsy: Collaborating for Advocacy, Research, and Community
Yssa DeWoody of Ring14 USA and the Rare Epilepsy Network provides a primer on rare epilepsies: what they are, how they are diagnosed and treated, and where to find resources and support.
Monitoring Mental Health in Kids with Epilepsy
We focus on mental health in children and teens with epilepsy. Pediatric neuropsychologist Madison Berl discussers potential issues and what to do.
A Post-Traumatic Epilepsy Journey: Diagnosis Acceptance Leads to Career Helping Others
Mark DeFee shares his years-long journey with post-traumatic epilepsy from his diagnosis following multiple concussions, through his years of denial in college, to his acceptance and efforts to manage his seizures.
Finding Solutions and Pursuing Passions with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
This week on Seizing Life ®, Channing Seideman shares her epilepsy story from her first seizure to a diagnosis of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and tells us how she found safe ways to continue skiing and horseback riding.
A Young Woman’s Epilepsy Journey of Acceptance, Empowerment, and Advocacy
This week on Seizing Life college student Kiara Mowat shares her epilepsy journey from her diagnosis in 2018 at age 14 to her first year in college. Hear this personal epilepsy story from an amazing young woman.
Addressing and Reducing Epilepsy-Related Deaths
Today on Seizing Life®, Gardiner Lapham discusses the creation of PAME (Partners Against Mortality in Epilepsy) a group that aims to raise awareness of mortality in epilepsy in order to reduce epilepsy-related deaths.