Yesterday I wrote about the waiting. Until now, that had been almost the worst part of Amelia’s epilepsy struggle. It was that way right from the start. From the moment I got the first call that she was on the way to the hospital almost four years ago, it has often seemed like we’ve never… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
When I was twenty-one and a college junior, I was diagnosed with cancer. Obviously, I made it through (or else my ghost has graduated, gotten its Master’s, gotten married, had two kids, and is currently typing this post), but it was close. By the time they found the cancer it had spread moste everywhere. Had… [Read more…]
December 23, 2011
Today is my daughter Amelia’s sixth birthday. For more than three of those years, she’s battled epilepsy. Last night, after a particularly rough evening for her, and her parents, my wife said something to me. “I don’t understand,” she said. “I just don’t understand why she has to go through this.” This has been a series… [Read more…]
December 14, 2011
Normally, I don’t like to post unless I have something new and exciting to say. OK, at least new. But I did want to get this message out to as many people as possible. There’s an organization called Team Epilepsy. They have a page on Facebook that I’ve “liked”, and currently they’re running a contest: … [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
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