It took me a long time to understand why epilepsy entered my world after being seizure-free for the first 19 years of my life. Truthfully, I spent a lot of years asking myself, why me? I was bitter at first about my epilepsy for quite some time. My bitterness was due in part to […]

  My name is Ian, and when I was diagnosed with epilepsy I honestly didn’t know what to think. The question floating around in my head was “why me?”. Though it was burdensome, I learned that perseverance is necessary for taking on the unknown. Sometimes in life, we aren’t dealt the cards we want, but […]

  I was really fortunate in my early years that I rarely felt ostracized for my epilepsy. I was lucky enough to have protective friends and naive enough not to notice the mimicking or rude comments I’d hear about later. I remember one friend on the playground in a game of tag saying, “He’s having […]

My seizures had a pattern. I would feel an aura in my abdomen area and it was very indicative that I was about to have a seizure. So when I felt courageous, I would tell someone. I didn’t always feel courageous, so you know, I probably kept it to myself. But I would have this […]

After I got my job with Office Depot and was benefited with a job coach, I feel like it brought more hope to my life, especially that I was able to hold a job for long and not let my learning disability get in the way. And writing my book has helped purge through my […]

Michaela: The people in my family are my sister Gianna, and my mom and dad. Michaela: Whenever I have a seizure I can’t feel it and then I just wake up and sometimes my head hurts and I get…and I have to miss fun things. Michaela’s Mother: We first discovered Michaela had epilepsy around 8 […]