July 21, 2004
In The Beginning
I guess I should start this by telling you how it all began for me....the epilepsy. It was a July day in my hometown of Chicago. I was seventeen years old, a bright happy teenager without a care in the world. I was standing out back of the three story brownstone I lived in with my mom, two sisters and brother. All of a sudden I found myself in the E.R. of Billings Memorial Hospital on The U of C Hyde Park Campus. My mom, who is an R.N., told me I just had a grand mal seizure. There was an inch long gash on my chin which required five stitches and a bump the size of a lemon on my forehead. Apparently I had collapsed while smoking a cigarette with my friends.
The doctors told me that my seizures were what is called temporal lobe seizures and were of unknown origin.
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Posted by Rose S. on July 21, 2004 11:10 AM
Hi Rose,
I found your blog whilst researching Epilepsy. Can I ask you much having the condition actually holds you back in everyday adult life, if at all?
I'd also like you to maybe come and offer some of your insight to visitors to my new blog, set up in an effort to better understand Epilepsy it ongoing effects on all of our lives etc.....
I intend this to become a valuable resource to anyone else affected by the condition.
Please view this site and please leave any comments and pass the link on to your friends,
http://elliesepilepsy.blogspot.com/
Best wishes,
Dee
Posted by: Dee at October 7, 2007 11:17 AM