by Suzanna Price | Mar 20, 2020 | blog, Uncategorized
Do you remember “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni Mitchell? If you don’t know her original, you’ve no doubt heard one of the 470 cover versions of this song (no joke! Look it up) It is timeless, no doubt, because everyone knows the...
by Suzanna Price | Dec 24, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
These last 4 weeks have been a rushing waterfall of emotions. I haven’t cried so much since my dad died. But maybe that’s ok- it’s part of my healing. I am grieving the loss of not just my independence- it feels like something bigger was stolen from me. Like a...
by Suzanna Price | Dec 1, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
Today I write with a heavy heart and a mind unsettled. After nearly 22 months of freedom from seizures, I had a nasty one last week. I was washing my face and my husband heard the crash of me falling down in the bathroom. I awoke to his concerned face over me,...
by Suzanna Price | Sep 24, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
Living with epilepsy was always like waiting for the other shoe to drop. I might feel fine when I woke in the morning, but never could predict when or where the next seizure would happen. I felt like there was an ever-present storm cloud on my radar,...
by Suzanna Price | Jul 14, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
July 2019At this writing I am nearing 18 months since brain surgery. What was once a pipe dream is my reality: a brain that doesn’t misfire! A year and a half out, 17 and a half years since diagnosis…the emotions have been so intense, pulsating in excitement,...
by Suzanna Price | Jun 3, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
For the first 16 years of marriage, Wayne and I knew nothing but this: my epilepsy was part of our norm. We had a jump start learning the “worse” side of “for better or worse”. I felt like I was walking on a minefield- how many seizures might blow up on my face...
by Suzanna Price | Apr 24, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
We all like to be in control…And most of us function better with some regularity and predictability in life; you don’t have to be a “control freak” to recognize this. I’ve seen this truth solidified since becoming a parent; kids thrive with routine. And you’ve...
by Suzanna Price | Apr 9, 2019 | blog, epilepsy, ER, fear, Seizures
Battling long-term physical conditions takes its toll on you. Day by day, you trudge along, hoping for a brighter future or some kind of relief. If I went a few days without a seizure I would think, wow, if only this could last. But it didn’t, and my...
by Suzanna Price | Mar 30, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
One in 26. That’s the statistic for the number of us who will develop...
by Suzanna Price | Mar 16, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
Remember that excitement and counting the days till your 16th birthday, that oh-so-magical new freedom of driving? I enjoyed that privilege for seven years, then epilepsy stole that freedom. Thus began my daily lesson in asking for help.In Colorado, the rule is “3...
