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Megan’s Girl Scout Gold Award Project
Megan, now 22, was a Junior in high school and one day in class, the students had to standup and talk about diseases, etc. One girl stood up and said that Epilepsy was a disease. Megan came home and was really bothered about that and decided to educate the students at...
Emily’s Epileptic Days
Emily has had epilepsy for 8 years but was officially diagnosed about 6 years ago. She has Generalized Epilepsy with Intractable Epilepsy. She is currently on two different medications to keep her seizures at bay. She has gone from having 3-5 seizures a day that would...
Aubryn’s Journey
Aubryn is a very happy go lucky 13 year old that was recently diagnosed with Idiopathic Generalized Intractable Epilepsy. She was born health with no problems of anything. Once she turned 3 and started preschool, she became very hyper and was distracted very easily....
She Just Felt Like She Belonged…
We were not registered last year, we happened to just be at Disney for this event and it was amazing! My daughter is not one who reaches out to people, she says away from other kids due to so much difficulty tracking conversations. Even at Disney it's just "us"...
Sofie’s Journey
This is a follow up to our original story from April 2014. We want to update families, so that people can see that continued progress and success is possible. We also want to update everyone on the growth of Epilepsy Awareness Day at Disneyland and the upcoming event...
Sasha Pina
Hi my name is Sasha Pina. I am 21 years old and was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 16 a year after a traumatic brain injury. The diagnosis was Complex Partial seizures coming from my left temporal occipital lobe. The next step was to try and find the right...
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