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25 Nov 2016

Epilepsy Blog Relay™: Coping with the holidays

by Emily Lawrence (Nee Donoghue) | 0

This post is part of the Epilepsy Blog Relay™ which will run from November 1 through November 30, 2016. Follow along! Emily’s Perspective It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!! Christmas and wintertime are my favourite time of year, and for so many others too, but this festive season can be … Read More

Epilepsy Blog Relay
3 Mar 2013

Emily’s Story: Absence Seizures – Part 1

by Jessica K. Smith | 19

I sat in class, as my friends and I chatted about how we would love to be police officers. A police officer stood at the front of the room chatting about not talking to strangers. “Do you know why you shouldn’t talk to strangers?” the officer asked. My hand shot up, I … Read More

Personal Stories, Petit Mal, types of seizures
3 Feb 2013

Seizure jokes aren’t funny

by Jessica K. Smith | 9

I just watched Beyoncé strut her stuff during the SuperBowl Halftime Show. The show was full of so many strobes that the Twitterverse was a-buzz with snarky comments about seizures. I now have a headache after watching the show. But I have to say the headache is more from the comments on Twitter … Read More

Seizure jokes, Strobelights
22 Sep 2012

Morgans Epilepsy Story: Living with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

by Jessica K. Smith | 3

Morgan’s Epilepsy Story Morgan shares her epilepsy story about living with Temporal lobe epilepsy. Morgan’s epilepsy story was first published on the site in 2012 When I was 15 months old, I had my first seizure. I had been sick and running a very high fever. According to my mom and my … Read More

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