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 […]

In March 2012 Aly was playing at school and fell off the Monkey Bars and hit her head and broke her arm. We took her in and everything was fine. In May 2012 Aly had her first episode which scared us. We took Aly in and they ran some test and diagnosed her with Epilepsy, […]

When I was 9 years old I had my first seizure. I was sleeping when my younger sister saw me starting to shake and foam at the mouth. My mother was diagnosed with Epilepsy when she was 13 so I’m guessing it’s genetic. After this first seizure, they started to happen often. Sometimes two or […]

Who is Nikolas Ortiz?  Nikolas Ortiz was born in October of 2003. Nikolas is a fun, loving, thoughtful, and happy boy. He has a passion for life, basketball and hanging out with his cousins and friends. When Nikolas was just over a year old, he had what at the time was diagnosed as a “febrile” […]

Our son Spencer was born in 2008 as a full term healthy bundle of joy weighing in at 9 pounds 2 ounces. Everything was perfect as Spencer completed our family as our fourth son. Spencer has 3 older brothers. Around six weeks old we noticed Spencer having a repetitive motion looking up to his left […]

My name is Chelsea. I’m 23 years old & a full time worker at a nursing home. I was born with epilepsy & diagnosed by the age of 4. Ive been going to Stanford hospital since I was a child. I’ve had the VNS surgery when I was 11 years old in the year 2001. […]