In sharing my story, I hope to help you understand you aren’t alone. I understand you feel like it and the best advice I can share with you is to know it’s a process of accepting your diagnosis and there are so many more resources to help support you today. Read more…
To Chris with Love. Thank you for always being there. “You have epilepsy.” Can you imagine hearing that? Have you heard it yourself or know someone who has? How did you feel when hearing words like these? Were you ready? Speaking from my own experience, I can say it was Read more…
This episode includes the basics of Epilepsy. Have you ever asked yourself, if I had the chance to give advice what would I say? In this episode, the host of our Epilepsy podcast, David Clifford, goes back in time to 1991 to give his former-self advice about Epilepsy and seizures. Read more…
Because I have had epilepsy for 15 years, I know that having intractable epilepsy, or really any type of epilepsy is debilitating. It is a loss of control of the one thing you were promised to have control over: your body. You have a seizure, you take medicine, you have Read more…
When my daughter, Vivien, went a year without having seizures, my wife and I searched for extracurricular activities. Vivien tried several sports but enjoyed swimming the most. We just wanted her to have some normalcy. There were limited places near our home that offered swimming. The one that looked good Read more…
I would like to thank everyone who read my last blog. I truly appreciate everyone’s comments. My intention was not to upset anyone but apparently, that’s what I did. I knew someone would be angry, but I decided that it needed to be said. Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. I Read more…
My daughter started having seizures at the age of two. My wife and I were told by her doctor to contact the Epilepsy Foundation of Los Angeles if we had any questions. Most people are not aware that there are several Epilepsy Foundations. Some are bigger than others. Each state Read more…