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…
I recently came across these notes. On the third year anniversary of my neurosurgery, I thought I would share them. A few months after having resection neurosurgery in 2017, my neurologist asked me to tell my story to the incoming class of students at Stanford Medical School. The theme was Read more…
This is a companion gallery to the 020: The Recovery episode. The following images contain GRAPHIC CONTENT of our host’s resection surgery. After you listen to our 019: The Surgery and 020: The Recovery episodes, and you have questions regarding these images we would love to hear from you. You 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…
In this episode, our host, David Clifford, walks through the events leading up to his neurosurgery in 2017. This is part one of a two-part series. Make sure that you listen to 020: The Recovery to learn the whole story. Neurosurgery is often the last resort for people of epilepsy Read more…
In this episode, I reluctantly open up about my almost thirty-year-long personal struggle with uncontrolled seizures and describe the great lengths to which I went to overcome them. I want to first thank everyone that has supported me through my decades-long adventures with Epilepsy that ultimately led to my role Read more…