In this episode, the host of our podcast, David Clifford, talks about Personal Independence. He describes how we can maintain it while also staying safe. Though losing one’s driver’s license is frustrating, personal independence is just more than having the privilege to drive. A level-four Epilepsy Center has all the Read more…
In this episode, Christin Godale comes on to the show to provide advice to families that include students looking to transition from high school to University. The transition from high school to university is hard on anyone that tries it. When one add Epilepsy or seizures the transition becomes even Read more…
VNS or (Vagus Nerve Stimulation) can be a new tool for you to control your seizures. In this episode, we invite the author of Vivien’s Rain: My Daughter’s Battle With Epilepsy, Mike Knox, to the show to help us learn more about VNS and how VNS has changed his family’s Read more…
I’ve written previously about an episode of my life where anger, frustration and immense loathing of my diagnosis caused me to make a terrible (and dangerous) decision. Without medical advice, I stopped taking my medication and lost almost a year of my life, it’s still a blank spot in my Read more…
I’ve had to accept, and it’s taken practice, that my mysterious sojourns from consciousness into the dark might just involve ‘souvenirs’…
I was talking to my mate, G. and he said, do you wanna hear something strange, Goldilocks? Well, I thought. What girl doesn’t want to do something, see something or hear something strange? And, he said: ‘we met about 5 years ago, yet I’ve known you for longer than you’ve Read more…
Our last episode presented the events leading up to the resection neurosurgery that our host, David Clifford, undertook in 2017. This episode covers what happened immediately after the surgery and provides an update of his recovery. There are plenty of risks regarding surgery and one should investigate and consider all Read more…
Like breakfast and brushing my teeth, epilepsy is something I just ‘do’. Some people paint, some people knit, I ‘epilepsy’. This is not to imply this condition defines me, nothing could be further from the truth. This is to state that every now and again I’m taken over by this Read more…
I’m Goldilocks (every now and then I become Epilepsy Goldilocks); I’m a Superhero; and I’m also a VNS robot. I’d not even heard of a Vagus Nerve Stimulator (VNS) until a bitterly cold, snowy day in London, February 2018. I was at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) Read more…
Every superhero often finds their superpowers, in some ways, work against them. So, I’m just going to come right out and say it, at times epilepsy really sucks. There, it’s done. But it’s most definitely not over. If it was, I’ve just written the world’s shortest blog post (well, it’s Read more…