My pharmacist friend with epilepsy

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...

The Incredible Caprice

        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...

Epilepsy: Many Warriors’ Perspectives

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...

A Child’s View of 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....
Scary seizure episodes

Scary seizure episodes

   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...