It was a normal morning Aug. 29 for the Conley family of Oak Avenue. Toddler Gabe Conley sleepily came downstairs and rolled onto the couch about 6:30 a.m. His mother, Erin, was in the kitchen getting him a drink when she heard her mother, Virginia Dockum, call from the living... read more →
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31
Cara Kazor has lived with epilepsy since she was 5 years old, but never found the opportunity to open up about her emotions surrounding the condition. After attending Studio E, a six-week art therapy session for teens and adults with epilepsy, she found a way to address those issues and... read more →
Mar
31
Just as in all good stories of boys and their dogs, Dezmond Hill, 18, and Shadow, his service dog, are heroes. Both fight Hill’s epilepsy every day and night. So far they are winning, but their journey is epic. In two years together, Shadow, a pit bull-Labrador retriever-cross trained as... read more →
Mar
25
By the time Andrew Rios was 2 years old, he had already been given nine different medications to quell the non-stop seizures that had racked his little body since he was just 5 months old. One of them, Felbamate, caused severe bruising, as well as insomnia, which makes epileptic seizures... read more →
Mar
25
Epilepsy is something that can affect anyone, at any age and without any warning. As part of Purple Day, which is the international event for epilepsy awareness, one South Derbyshire mother has spoken about how she has coped with her daughter who suffers from epilepsy. Mail reporter Rob Smyth spoke... read more →
Mar
25
For most of his life, Kevin Ramsey has lived with epileptic seizures that drugs cannot control. At least once a month, he would collapse, unconscious and shaking violently, sometimes injuring himself. Nighttime seizures left him exhausted at dawn, his tongue a bloody mess. After episodes at work, he struggled to... read more →
Mar
18
The photo above is me with my beautiful, 23 year-old, daughter, Kelly. She has suffered every day of her entire life, struggling under the pain of severe epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, mental and physical retardation, etc, etc, etc. She now functions at the level of a 6-month-old baby. In 1997, Kelly... read more →
Mar
18
When exposed to a certain toxin in algae, sea lions develop a form of epilepsy similar to that in people, a new study says. Domoic acid -- which can cause tremors, convulsions, memory loss and death -- is produced by algae blooms and accumulates in small fish that sea lions... read more →
Mar
14
Kentucky's state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to advance a bill that allowing the use of marijuana oil to treat some cases of childhood epilepsy. Senate Bill 124, sponsored by state Sen. Julie Denton (R-Louisville), would exempt the marijuana extract cannabidiol from being classified as marijuana when used in Federal Drug... read more →
Mar
13
Parents worry about their children from the moment they’re born. But for Shelley Regier and her husband Randy that worry is constant. Their twin daughters, Emily and Ally, 19, were both diagnosed with epilepsy at a young age. Emily had her first seizure when she was 10 and, after an... read more →