There is a symposium about living with epilepsy which I will be attending this month called Living Well With Epilepsy. It is being presented by the Center for Epilepsy, a epilepsy advocacy, support and education society which is doing marvellous work, right near us in Abbotsford. I am looking forward to the conference for a few reasons: the guest speaker is our daughter's paediatric neurologist, we are still dealing with seizures after an almost 3 month hiatus and a year on anti-epileptic medication and it is always therapeutic to get in amongst other families with epilepsy and feel like part of something bigger. "A problem shared is a problem halved" as they say...
For us living with seizures means a lot of stress, uncertainty, worry and fear. Epilepsy lives in the back of our minds like a dark unwelcome guest who descends upon us from time to time without a thought for whatever else is going on in our lives. Tonight though, while walking around B.C. Children's Hospital on our way to our daughter's MRI appointment, I am reminded of how small our problems truly are, how blessed we are, how lucky. Yes, we live with seizures and the terrifying scenarios that they can present but the rest of the time we are healthy, she is healthy, life is good. Life is great. And living well is knowing that, everyday.
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