This series features inspiring individuals who are living happy, productive, and socially-active lives despite their epilepsy. Their ages and professions vary, as do all the types of seizures they have: tonic-clonic (gran-mal), complex partial (petit-mal), absence, and focal. Guests have productive lives while being treated with medications, devices like the Vagus Nerve Stimulator (VNS), Responsive Neurostimulator (RNS), and lobectomy surgery. Epilepsy has cost many their jobs, but they've found new ones, changed careers, got new laws passed, or started their own companies. Another segment of each episode features a famous person who had epilepsy. Be encouraged to become an epilepsy warrior with the realization that you may have epilepsy, but epilepsy doesn't have you!
Welcome to this debut of the third season The Epilepsy Gangster! We take you on a violinist’s life-long journey with epilepsy. When 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl heard how remarkably she’d recovered from a revolutionary operation over 30 years ago, she interviewed her. Now this woman has much more hope to give us about her epilepsy, marriage, family, and her music.
Careers can be forced to change because of epilepsy. Since it attacked a spirited TV reporter, she's become an award-winning filmmaker, author and speaker instead. A chipper mechanic left the garage for a life more fun than he ever dreamt possible. Learn, too, about the evasive turn a racecar driver made on his career track when epilepsy tried blocking him.
Because caring for her son’s epilepsy wouldn’t let this single mother hold a daytime job, it was necessary to become an exotic dancer to feed her children. She tells how God saved them. Hear too, a wife and husband tell how they separated when he denied how bad his epilepsy was. Now they are married over 30 years because of her prayers to care for his needs.
Many people with epilepsy have at least one other chronic disability to juggle with at the same time. Natalie was winning her life-long struggle to control her seizures, but oncologists ignored that and told her to drop her medications in order to treat breast cancer. Ande finds it “exhausting” to have cerebral palsy besides her epilepsy.
Epilepsy knows no boundaries, and a man built a clinic and school in Africa where it is thought to be witchcraft or contagious. Another man’s globally raising awareness of epilepsy and its first aid, uniquely, and has prompted US Navy SEALs’ involvement!
Epilepsy Gangster
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