Seizing Life

This week on Seizing Life®, we speak with Hailey Yoon about the emotional and psychological impacts that childhood epilepsy may have even years after seizures subside.

This week on Seizing Life® Dr. Dave Clarke gives us a thorough overview of the specialists and services available at comprehensive epilepsy centers and offers advice about when and how to access these centers.

This week on Seizing Life® we speak with epilepsy advocates and married couple Tiffany and Chris Kairos about the impact that epilepsy has had on their marriage.

This week on Seizing Life®, father and therapist Bud Hager discusses being the caregiver to a young daughter with a rare and complex medical condition. Bud discusses the daily responsibilities and the overarching emotional journey of parenting a child with a rare disease, and how it has transformed his life in both tangible and philosophical ways.

This week on Seizing Life® Dr. Patrice Jackson-Ayotunde, an organic chemist and Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), discusses her 20+ years of epilepsy drug research and her decade-long epilepsy fundraising efforts.

This week on Seizing Life® we speak with Matt Perrone about his epilepsy onset and treatment journey, the impacts of seizures and medication on his mental health, and how his daughter’s diagnosis at the age of four spurred him to create EpiPalooza, a multi-band concert aimed at raising awareness and funds for epilepsy research.

This week on Seizing Life® we welcome Lucretia Long to the podcast to discuss the present and future of epilepsy care and treatment. Lucretia is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) and a Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP) at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center who has been working with epilepsy patients for over 30 years. She shares her vast experience and perspective on a range of areas within epilepsy care, treatment, and patient information.

This week on Seizing Life® we speak with Reid Rainwater and his father Ryan about the sudden onset of epilepsy that Reid experienced as a freshman in high school, his journey to controlling tonic-clonic seizures, and how epilepsy and stigma have impacted his education and tennis career as one of the top young players in Oklahoma.

This week on Seizing Life® mother and epilepsy advocate Collen Jendreas joins us to share her young son Owen’s epilepsy journey from initial onset to a diagnosis of Lenox Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), and discuss how two particular interventions have made a significant impact on Owen’s quality of life.