Charles Baus/Cal Sport Media During the Minnesota Golden Gophers‘ game against New Mexico State on September 10, the Gophers head coach Jerry Kill suffered a seizure on the sidelines. It has been made known that Kill has a history of seizures. The seizure he suffered on the field is categorized as a … Read More
Heading back to school with epilepsy can be stressful. But there are now several resources available to parents and teachers that can help with the transition.Web resources There is a site called Epilepsyclassroom.com. It opens with a welcome from Greg Grunberg of Heroes, founder of the site TalkAboutIt.org. The site was designed … Read More
In 2009 it was front page news that 45,000 people die each year, and according to the Huffington Post that’s one death every 12 minutes. It also common knowledge that we need to cure breast cancer. In fact, The National Breast Cancer Foundation’s mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of … Read More
A reader recently raised a topic as a comment that everyone should have a chance to weigh in on. The comment was made by Morgan on an earlier post titled Topomax recalled: Smells like teen spirit? Not so much. The comment read: I see a lot of those ads about lawyers basically … Read More
Bryan Farley is a wonderful photographer, fantastic writer and dedicated epilepsy advocate. Oh yeah, and he has epilepsy too. Bryan recently started blogging on the Epilepsy Foundation’s ecommunities blog network site. Bryan recently posted a fantastic piece on the blog network. Afterreading the post and the exciting commentary that follows, I asked … Read More
Cathy Hozack is one of my favorite artists, and it just so happens that she also has epilepsy. Cathy is showing her work for a limited time in New York City at the Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery. Cathy has said, “I am an artist with too much electricity in my brain: … Read More
I wanted to take a minute to apologize for the radio silence you’ve had for the past two weeks, or so. Some of you know that this blog thing is not my full time gig. I have recently left a position as Interim Director of Stewardship at the Wharton School, and moved … Read More
In the Living Well Reader Survey, you asked for information on the Vagus Nerve Stimulator (VNS). Well you are in luck! Meghan O’Neil, who has used the device to treat her epilepsy since 2008, has agreed to talk to Living Well about her experience with VNS. What is VNS? According to Epilepsy.com, … Read More