Hello all,
I'm pretty new to this site even though I joined about a year ago. Even tough I am usually quiet, I figure its time to introduce myself.
I am a elementary school teacher/ full scale sculpture/ violinist from Wilmington NC. I live and love the beach, camping, cycling, and hiking.
My history with epilepsy started when I was 3 years old and began to have what used to be called petit mal seizures. My family never told me I had epilepsy until I had my first Generalized tonic clonic (grand mal) at around the age of eight. It became hard for them to keep it a secret from a little girl who woke up staring into the face of EMT just about every other day. But I do give credit to them for their sincere honesty afterwards. Also for their push to not have their daughter denied anything. Also, never let this disorder stop me or scare me. That's pretty much become my own stance. If there is something that I want I will go get it no matter what.
Right now at the age of 34 I have become something of a loud mouth both around my workplace and around my town about epilepsy. I have found that their are about 25 students at my school who have diagnosed epilepsy and they are SCARED. So I became their shoulder to cry on as well as someone whom they could talk to. I remember all to well what its like to have friends one day, having a seizure, then the next day for some odd reason your friends have disappeared. That's elementary school for you.
Right now with the help of my doctor I am trying hard to establish a support group in my town for epileptics, especially for the soldiers who are coming back from wars with epilepsy and are scared and don't know what to do.
So that's me in a nutshell
I am glad this forum is hear.:soap:
I'm pretty new to this site even though I joined about a year ago. Even tough I am usually quiet, I figure its time to introduce myself.
I am a elementary school teacher/ full scale sculpture/ violinist from Wilmington NC. I live and love the beach, camping, cycling, and hiking.
My history with epilepsy started when I was 3 years old and began to have what used to be called petit mal seizures. My family never told me I had epilepsy until I had my first Generalized tonic clonic (grand mal) at around the age of eight. It became hard for them to keep it a secret from a little girl who woke up staring into the face of EMT just about every other day. But I do give credit to them for their sincere honesty afterwards. Also for their push to not have their daughter denied anything. Also, never let this disorder stop me or scare me. That's pretty much become my own stance. If there is something that I want I will go get it no matter what.
Right now at the age of 34 I have become something of a loud mouth both around my workplace and around my town about epilepsy. I have found that their are about 25 students at my school who have diagnosed epilepsy and they are SCARED. So I became their shoulder to cry on as well as someone whom they could talk to. I remember all to well what its like to have friends one day, having a seizure, then the next day for some odd reason your friends have disappeared. That's elementary school for you.
Right now with the help of my doctor I am trying hard to establish a support group in my town for epileptics, especially for the soldiers who are coming back from wars with epilepsy and are scared and don't know what to do.
So that's me in a nutshell
I am glad this forum is hear.:soap:
