Life With Epilepsy In Public
“Do you know where you are?” “Can you tell me who the President is?” These are examples of questions I have been asked when I find myself uncomfortably lying…
How To Love Yourself Despite Epilepsy
When epilepsy enters into your life, it can take a massive shot at your self-esteem. You’re not able to do certain things you once could do, you’ve got to rely…
5 Things That Help Me During A Seizure Setback
In the over ten years that I have lived with epilepsy and experienced seizures, I can’t tell you just how many seizures have pained me, drained me, and unplugged me…
Epilepsy & That Time Of The Month
Yep. I’m going there. That awkward, not-often talked about subject coupled with epilepsy. First thing’s first. That time of the month sucks. An unwelcome guest that barges in and makes…
10 Things I Don’t Do While Living With Epilepsy
Out of the corner of my eye, I see the minutes pass by, I flip the calendar to a brand new month, watching the seasons change. Leaves fall and dance…
4 Things People With Epilepsy Want You To Know
Epilepsy can intrude into anyone’s life, at any time. Millions of men, women and children battle this selfish and rather challenging condition every single day. All of us diagnosed are…
Five Things To Do Everyday When Living with Epilepsy
I have lived with epilepsy for nearly a decade now. Wow, how fast time goes. Time opens your eyes and imparts wisdom, if you let it. Epilepsy is a complex…
Epilepsy Quirks
The journey in living with epilepsy hasn’t always been without its stumbles and trials. Regardless, I’ve learned quite a bit throughout the years. In having developed a tougher skin, absorbing…
5 Things To Remember About Someone With Epilepsy
Epilepsy can be a challenging tribulation, not only for an estimated 3 million Americans such as myself who battle each day, but in addition for all of the people in…
What Epilepsy Did
Along my epilepsy journey, I’d come across a profound poem that most know of, titled “What Cancer Cannot Do.” This powerful poem proclaims statements such as, “it cannot silence courage,”…
6 Things About Having Epilepsy That Aren’t Terrible, Horrible, No Good.
There happens to be this common misconception among some of those who battle epilepsy that, the moment the condition has tipped its hat to your brain and your life, that…
Lessons Learned From Epilepsy
It took a crash. A what could have been a fatal car crash and the diagnosis of epilepsy in order to open my eyes. To assess my entire life. The…
To Be A Wife With Epilepsy
When we were engaged to be married, we were on cloud nine with love for one another, goals and dreams for our future together as husband and wife coming together…
Why I Am Open About My Epilepsy
There is still to this day such a stigma attached to the condition of epilepsy. It is viewed at as a literal disease by some. Something that you can catch…
Anxiety and Epilepsy: How To Put A Stop To It Before It Puts A Stop To You
“Anxiety is one little tree in your forest. Step back and look at the whole forest.” Unknown Anxiety. A faceless beast that affects us all at some time or another.…
5 Ways I Stay Positive Living With Epilepsy
Epilepsy has one job, and one job only. To attempt to make our lives a living hell. We have one job too as epilepsy fighters. To return the favor. You…
