Epilepsy

Navigating Life with Epilepsy provides accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about epilepsy shared from the two decades of experience of epileptologist David Spencer, MD, FAAN. This book guides the listener through the initial diagnosis, offers explanations on current approaches to diagnostic testing, medications, treatment options, and life management for the patient, their family, and their caregiver.

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest.

Eleven-year-old Anna has lived all her life with severe epilepsy. Despite the ravage of thousands of violent seizures and heavy medications, she has thrived at school, athletics, and her greatest passion—dance. As she approaches her twelfth birthday, Anna's condition takes a dire turn. Her health declines quickly and a new diagnosis is revealed, leaving the family only one excruciating choice.

Living with epilepsy is a constant battle. It can feel like you're alone in the struggle, but Stacey Chillemi wants you to know that you're not. In her groundbreaking book, Epilepsy You're Not Alone, Chillemi shares her personal journey and offers invaluable insights on how to cope with this debilitating disorder.

For more than 30 years, parents, caregivers, and health care providers have trusted Seizures and Epilepsy in Children to provide comprehensive, science-based information and practical answers to the most common questions about these conditions. In this new edition, completely revised and updated, a team of experts from Johns Hopkins Medicine offers guidance

This is the story of one man's battle to pursue his dreams despite an often incapacitating brain disorder. From his early experiences of fear and denial to his exasperating search for treatment, Kurt Eichenwald provides a deeply candid account of his years facing this misunderstood and often stigmatized condition. He details his encounters with the doctors whose negligence could have killed him, but for the heroic actions of a brilliant neurologist and the family and friends who fought for him.

Through humour and observation, Epilepsy: Live or Die shows how the author has had his life shaped by epilepsy. He believes that awareness is the key to understanding, and through this book, hopes to inform and gently educate people about those living with the condition.

Epilepsy is a condition that most of us are aware of but, unless we’ve had close contact with it, don’t understand much about. The Epilepsy Awareness audiobook not only fills in the blanks, but provides extensive information about the condition that will prove useful to those with epilepsy, their family and caregivers, and anyone else who would like to understand the condition and how to manage it.

Imagine if you had a step-by-step plan to help your special needs child make incredible developmental leaps. A plan that could possibly help your child learn to walk, speak, and succeed at school. For parents of children with special needs, answers can feel impossible to find. This book is full of answers. If you have a child diagnosed with Autism, ADD, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Developmental Delay, Epilepsy, Speech Delay, a genetic abnormality or special need – this book, and the knowledge in it, will change their life. Authors Douglas and Spencer Doman are the Founder and CEO of ...

Now in its seventh edition, Ketogenic Diet Therapies for Epilepsy and Other Conditions is the premier resource for anyone considering starting or already implementing a ketogenic diet for epilepsy or other medical disorder. Coauthored by a multi-disciplinary care team from the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, this valuable reference establishes how these diets work, providing both the basics as well as advanced methods on how to start and maintain children and adults on ketogenic diets.

In 1992, Franziska Thomas had her first seizure and her whole world was turned upside down - literally. In Fits and Starts, Franziska gives a compelling personal description of living with epilepsy, an illness shrouded in secrecy and antiquated myths. Laden with self-deprecating humor, she describes her own coming of age - as an epileptic, a teacher, and ultimately, a mother.

Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: She's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim. Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj's to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be ecstatic when Chatham shows interest, but she has a problem. She hasn't told anyone about her epilepsy.

Your body has secrets. Most of them are still unknown to science. But as research and technology improve, new mind-blowing revelations occur – and anyone can take advantage of them. One of the latest secrets revealed in the last few years is the secret vagus nerve. Eighty to ninety percent of the fibers in the vagus nerve are responsible for sensations inside your body. If you could manipulate this nerve and optimize it, you could drastically change your life and relieve pain that feels like it's been there forever!

When Matt Westin opens his eyes, he’s back on Earth—and seven years younger than when he went to sleep. For the last seven years, Matt and his sister, Jen, along with friends Carl and Blake, have been in the fantasy world of Cyraveil, revolutionaries fighting to overthrow a dictatorial empire. Now, they’ve suddenly returned to their quiet Oregon suburb, where they’re expected to go to high school and act like normal American teenagers. But after all this time, and with the memory of war so fresh in their minds, how can they pretend to be kids again?

In Epilepsy: A Walk In My Shoes, author Vickie Roy sheds light on her daily life with epilepsy. She walks us through her experiences with the condition and offers insight on how to cope independently. Vickie hopes to emphasize that while life with epilepsy is not easy, nothing is impossible.

“The most difficult thing about being misdiagnosed with a mental illness is the more you fight it, the crazier you seem.” At the age of twenty-three, Kate Recore began to suffer from a common brain disease. Although signs pointed directly at epilepsy, her neurologists misdiagnosed her with mental illness. For almost a year, Kate struggled against her worsening mind-altering seizures without any medical help. She lost her memory of the past, and her dreams for the future. After finally being tested and properly diagnosed, her journey through epilepsy began. Many years of failed drug ...

Lisa is content with her life in Portland, OR. She has a teenage daughter, Jordan, who is great and becoming more independent all the time in spite of, or maybe in part because of, her fairly recent diagnosis of epilepsy. She has friends, including an ex-husband who makes a good parenting partner. She has a part time job she enjoys. But when she meets Jess, a physical therapist volunteering her time with her Jordan's high school track team, she feels something stir. Getting closer to Jess brings romance, for sure, and also acts as a catalyst for some necessary change. But when Lisa learns ...

Encephalitis almost ended Chris Maxwell's life. The scar tissue in his brain and life with epilepsy made him - and his family and friends - feel like the life they'd known changed suddenly and permanently. For Maxwell and the staggering number of people facing traumatic brain injuries, epilepsy, or other painful encounters, life is experienced through a different lens.

When God Says No is a rare gift which grants the reader access into the very soul of a mother as she desperately tries to hold onto faith, while accepting the disabilities of her child, profoundly affected by autism and epilepsy. “He has rescued me from the edge when I was sure I would fall, crashing to a million pieces. I have spent hours in the darkness, sitting and rocking on the floor, fighting for my sanity. Wailing and moaning when too grieved to pray. I have felt the spirit of fear paralyze me. I met the spirit of suicide while driving over a bridge. I have carried the dark cloud ...

Jon Sadler was four when he had his first seizure following an episode of high fever. That made him the object of constant concern to his family and dictated almost every decision he made. With medication, Jon was deemed seizure-free for several years, though his speech was permanently affected. After a college sailing accident, he had his first grand mal seizure (loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions).