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.
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)
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Updated on June 20, 2007