Faye's Adventure: My Biggest Little Miracle

 Just like Epilectra, I feel like epilepsy has given me all sorts of special abilities. I was diagnosed at 15, started a program for people with epilepsy who wanted to make friends at 19, and got my Masters in Social Work while battling weekly tonic-clonic seizures at 29. Of all the things I’ve accomplished with epilepsy, I’m most proud of the baby I had with my wonderful husband in March of 2020.

 Despite many injuries, my biggest challenge has been facing the sedative and depressive medication side effects and advocating to change them to have a better quality of life. I'm still working on my relationship with the medical world, but feel all my experience has made me more understanding of people and the wide array of physical and emotional symptoms they can go through. I live with the knowledge that I can accomplish whatever I put my mind to, even with barriers in the way, and I have the infinite gratitude for each new day that only comes with having faced my own mortality. I am still in awe that this beautiful body recently created a human being and very curious what my future holds.

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