In the summer of 2015, I had two brain mapping surgeries, and I had a part of my brain removed, a malformation that was causing my seizures. And since then, I’ve been seizure-free for four years now. When I was in middle school, I wasn’t working out, I wasn’t exercising, and I didn’t feel confident […]

A major part of my experience with epilepsy is coming to terms with the diversity of experience with it, because I think I almost felt like some kind of imposter with the infrequency of my episodes. But finding solidarity via the foundation really, really welcomed me in. It made me feel as though I wanted […]

We all have different elements that make up who we are as people. And for the first two decades of my life, I had the hats that I knew that I could take on and take off. And then one day I learned I have this new hat and you can never take it off. […]

My epilepsy story contains two very different neurological events. I was born in 1975 with a defect in my left temporal lobe that caused seizures unresponsive to treatment until I had a left temporal lobectomy in 1996. That successful surgery let me live seizure free for nine years, graduate from college with an engineering degree, […]

My name is Melissa. The day before my first day of high school, I had stayed up all night for an AP English class that I had gotten myself into! I woke up completely exhausted. I got home from my very first day of high school and told my parents my stories. They went to […]

My name is Todd Teragawa. On November 6th, 2014 my brother Lonnie died of a grand mall seizure too young at the age of 46 at his home in Yuba City, California. The picture I posted was at his funeral service Friday November 14th, 2014. We’ve vowed to honor his memory by doing volunteer work […]