tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895440453335552117.post8069415074108833890..comments2024-03-28T15:12:21.172-04:00Comments on calvin's story: come out of the closetChristy Shakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00106761191160700997noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895440453335552117.post-22327391270852007972013-10-08T11:32:50.212-04:002013-10-08T11:32:50.212-04:00yes, "thurst" is the word. my best to yo...yes, "thurst" is the word. my best to you and your daughter. xoChristy Shakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00106761191160700997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895440453335552117.post-13277809504570201702013-10-08T11:32:20.755-04:002013-10-08T11:32:20.755-04:00thank you.thank you.Christy Shakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00106761191160700997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895440453335552117.post-33855864742477586772013-10-08T10:37:28.697-04:002013-10-08T10:37:28.697-04:00Yes, yes and yes. I have recently and suddenly bee...Yes, yes and yes. I have recently and suddenly been thrust into the epilepsy world (is there any way we enter it other than suddenly?) when my 15-year old daughter suffered 3 tonic-clonic seizures one afternoon a month ago. She is doing well on Keppra so far, but I haven't stopped holding my breath. And since then I have come face to face with my own ignorance, and society's silence. I have not stopped talking about it, and I am not going to. Lots of love to you and your son. This is such a brutal condition.Kira Gartnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895440453335552117.post-21495638358642655672013-10-07T16:06:59.062-04:002013-10-07T16:06:59.062-04:00I'm a person that will never forget...I relate...I'm a person that will never forget...I relate with Calvin due to the fact I was once a child with Epilepsy and still struggle with it till this day. Him or anyone that lives with Epilepsy are pure troopers and the family are just as much the troopers to be the front line for them all. I never left that life and pray that Calvin does.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982833951549463271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895440453335552117.post-11604471492070215092013-10-02T10:20:48.074-04:002013-10-02T10:20:48.074-04:00I was just having this conversation at a feminist ...I was just having this conversation at a feminist alliance meeting last night. We had a joint meeting with our disability group on campus to discuss intersectional issues that face women with disabilities and we were talking about exactly that. On a campus where it is all about coming out, ~*where are all the disabled people*~? Not fair that epilepsy is still conflated with shame; not fair that erasure dissipates the pain that people with epilepsy face; not fair that epilepsy receives a fraction of the funding that other neurological issues do. Society, we've gotta change!tropicalpenguin18https://www.blogger.com/profile/11800176995322015524noreply@blogger.com