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 article was originally posted on Instagram. Thirty years ago, for Halloween 1990, I was a Dead Punk Bride. I wasn’t much of a drinker but that night I had two mixed drinks. The next morning I had my first seizure. I was 21 years old, barely an adult. Five Read more…
If I wasn’t comfortable in a situation, be it in a job, a relationship or a living arrangement (you name it), I’d run. Anything that meant I’d have to confront something about myself that made me even the slightest bit uneasy, I’d pass. I don’t mean I’ve slowly backed away Read more…
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…
I woke up this morning with a headache, it wasn’t a big deal and it went away after I took regular, straightforward over-the-counter painkillers. When I showered, I found a very tender, and extremely large bump on the back of my head. Immediately I started joining dots together and the Read more…
My hope for this episode is to provide something that can be shared with people that do not experience seizures and illuminate a tiny sliver of the life of an epileptic. In this episode, I try to describe what I feel before, during, and after the different types of seizures Read more…
Show Notes In this episode, our host and long-time intractable epilepsy sufferer, David Clifford, introduces the high-level classification of Seizures through a simplified metaphor. He then describes the tools that medical professionals to tell if a seizure fits a particular category. Finally, he suggests the best seizure information to track Read more…