Tag: epilepsy

November is for Epilepsy Awareness

November 2, 2014 Whitney Uncategorized 0 Comments
November is for Epilepsy Awareness

You may have noticed that the blog has gone purple.  Purple is the color for Epilepsy Awareness.  I myself have the disorder thus it is a very personal cause.   While it does not have football players wearing purple, epilepsy is as common as breast cancer and kills just as many.   65 million people’s […]

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Book Review: My Sister’s Keeper

March 12, 2014 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Book Review: My Sister’s Keeper

I’m not sure how I feel about this book. One of the main characters has epilepsy and being epileptic myself I had some problems with the accuracy of Campbell’s seizure activity. In the novel, Campbell, Anna’s lawyer, has a dog that goes everywhere with him and later the reader learns it is a seizure dog. […]

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Book Review: Right Side Talking

February 20, 2013 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Book Review: Right Side Talking

I should probably prefix this review by saying I had brain surgery when I was a teenager due to uncontrolled epilepsy so when going into a book about a teen girl who had epilepsy having the two  hemispheres severed because of said condition, I knew I was bound to critique and be realistically critical.  And I was. […]

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November is Epilepsy Awareness Month!

November 1, 2012 Whitney Uncategorized 1 Comment
November is Epilepsy Awareness Month!

I am an extremely private person so I really debated writing this post but I think it is a topic that must be addressed.  November is epilepsy awareness month.  This is a very important issue to me as I was diagnosed with the disorder at the age of five.  For twelve years, we struggled with […]

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