by Suzanna Price | Feb 24, 2023 | blog, epilepsy, Seizures
Interview with a Pharmacist ….who lives with epilepsy! Author’s Note: Laura and I connected after she read my epilepsy memoir. We became fast long-distance friends and finally met in person at Epicon, a big epilepsy conference in Nashville. Your...
by Suzanna Price | Sep 27, 2022 | blog, epilepsy, Seizures
A wonderful Q and A session with another fantastic epilepsy warrior! As usual, the Z is for me, Zanna, and the C is for our guest Caprice. Without further ado, here it is: Your name and age? Caprice Ringold, age 38 Zanna: How old were you...
by Suzanna Price | Jun 30, 2022 | blog
Your name and age? Nikki Pankow, age 48 How old were you at diagnosis? 19 or 20. Zanna: Tell me about how you first became aware of your seizures. Nikki: My parents said I would suddenly be zoning out and then talk or babble about nonsense. That was just the...
by Suzanna Price | May 24, 2022 | blog
EPILEPSY INTERVIEWS! Welcome to the beginning of a series of interviews with fellow epilepsy warriors. Today our guest is a dear friend, Lindsie, and from here on, I’ll refer to us just as “L” and “Z” for Zanna. Lindsie is a great...
by Suzanna Price | Mar 5, 2022 | blog
Time for a trip down memory lane!- It’s now been 20 years since my epilepsy diagnosis. Two decades… it feels at once as if it has passed in the blink of an eye, yet the journey was long and arduous, giving me pause even now, as I say to my husband, How did...
by Suzanna Price | Jan 3, 2022 | blog, epilepsy, poetic expression, Seizures
From Fellow Warrior BecLeann (AKA Becca) This poetry and artwork come from a lovely lady with many years of seizures and a VNS (Vagus Nerve Stimulator) as well. Even with the VNS and numerous meds, her seizures continue and she leads a difficult life. But she also...
by Suzanna Price | Oct 31, 2021 | blog, epilepsy, Seizures
In the almost twenty years since my epilepsy diagnosis, I’ve heard a slew of uninformed, impolite, foolhardy and sometimes cruel remarks about seizures. All point to the assumptions people make and their downright ignorance. I, too, used to have a lot of the wrong...
by Suzanna Price | Oct 12, 2021 | blog, epilepsy, fear, Seizures
I have a 10-year old now. One who reads over my shoulder as I’m texting one of my epilepsy friends, and says, “You’re writing about seizures,” very matter-of-factly. “Honey, you know what a seizure is, right?” I ask my daughter....
by Suzanna Price | Apr 23, 2021 | blog
At this point, I can count on one hand the number of people who know this story. But it’s time to talk about it. I had a miscarriage in January. Now, before we get too far ahead- No, we weren’t trying. Are you kidding me? We let that ship sail many years...
by Suzanna Price | Jun 12, 2020 | blog
Ever since my dad’s passing in 2017, Father’s Day has been very bittersweet. I think of Dad strumming his guitar, singing “Blackbird”; I hear the steady honing and growling of his woodshop tools, a wonderful and therapeutic sound. Dad...
