First comes marriage and then comes children. That was what my husband and I planned back in 1994. Our son Kyle was born 9 months after our wedding. It was an easy pregnancy and uneventful birth. We were delighted as he met all milestones over the next few months. When he was 9 months old,…

My name is Mary. I am a wife, and mother of three teenage boys Sam (18), Ben (16) and Joey (14). Our epilepsy story began 7 years ago when my oldest son, Sam, was 11. We noticed that he was having “spells” where he would just stop everything he was doing and stare off into…

I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 8 years old. My family had no idea that it was seizures because I would shake as if I were cold and they thought I was doing it to avoid going to sleep at bedtime. After three nights in a row, we went to my family doctor,…

I was diagnosed with epilepsy in the summer of 2009, right before I started high school. No one in my family had ever suffered from epilepsy so it came as a great shock to us, and it wasn’t easy to adjust at first. My parents constantly had an eye on me, which for a 14…