Living with Epilespy
Peg and I both have Epilepsy, having lived with it much of our lives.
I have had 2 Grand Mal Seizures, but fortunately have been under
control
with medication since 1966. Peg has Temporal Lobe
Epilepsy and is less
controlled; her first seizure was as an infant. We are both fortunate,
however, to have had supportive families and live relatively normal
lives.
Update- Peg had brain surgery to
remove her right hippocampus on June 22, 2011 and was released from the
hospital on Jun 26! She is doing very well and time will tell how
seizrure free she is, but so far she is great!
In 1967, I wrote a High School Term paper on Epilepsy, and decided to post it here. I also found the materials / pamphlets I used as resources at the time. Check out this pamphlet and the arcaic laws that were on the books in 1965:
Problems
of the Epileptic - 1967 Term paper by Richard Whitney
This is a 4mb pdf file for
download
Link to
PDF
file to print out the above 1965 pamphlet
We have come a long way!!!
Epilepsy
Foundation
website- MA and RI office
That's me, Dick Whitney, working on a school Term Paper a couple years
earlier (1965)
Return to Index of Dick
Whitney
Autobiography
Updated on June 22, 2011