If you are newly diagnosed or just now looking into connecting with others living with epilepsy, we may not have met. I’m Jessica K. Smith, founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy and I was diagnosed with epilepsy after having several tonic clonic (grand mal) seizures the summer between seventh and … Read More
November is Epilepsy Awareness Month and it’s a great opportunity to get people talking about a disease that affects between 1-3% of the world’s population.
Guess who’s back on the Living Well With Epilepsy site and sharing her recent go-round with seizures…Read on to find out if your guess is right!
Though I’ve lived with Epilepsy for most of my life, watching a family member experience seizures for the first time was harder than I ever imagined.
This post is part of the Epilepsy Blog Relay™ which will run from November 1 through November 30. Follow along and add comments to posts that inspire you! Creativity and Epilepsy My name is Neil Creque Williams and I’m the Writer/Director of “David’s Reverie.” “David’s Reverie” is a short film about David, … Read More
This week Living Well With Epilepsy launched another Epilepsy Blog Relay™ to mark the first week of Epilepsy Awareness Month. Here’s a recap in case you missed any of this week’s posts.
This post is part of the Epilepsy Blog Relay™ which will run from November 1 through November 30. Follow along and add comments to posts that inspire you! About Dr. Helbig Ingo Helbig, MD, is an epilepsy genetics researcher, German child neurologist at the University of Kiel, Germany and child neurology fellow … Read More
This post was written by Elizabeth Terry, a historian and author in St. Louis, and mom to Spencer who has Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS). Living Well With Epilepsy is grateful to Lundbeck, a Sponsor of the November 2015 Epilepsy Blog Relay™. I remember my husband and I whispering to each other, “Is this … Read More