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My name is Christine. I’m 54 years old and have always lived in Massachusetts.
I’m married with five children and one granddaughter. When the...
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Kim's Story
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My name is Kim. I live in a small town in New Hampshire. When you have epilepsy and you live in a small town, it... -
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Hello! My name is Tammey and I am a Registered Nurse Educator, wife, and mother. On October 07, 2007 at 4AM, my life as... -
Richard's Story
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Hi, my name is Richard Lopez, I have epilepsy and I’ve had epilepsy since I was 13. I got the RNS System on June 11th,... -
Luisa's Story
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My name is Luisa Fields and I am 37 years old. I first started having seizures when I became pregnant with my first son... -
Connie's Story
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My name is Connie. I’ve had epilepsy for about seven years now and I’ve had the RNS for about three months. -
Nancy's Story
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My name is Nancy. I live in Erie, Pennsylvania alongside Lake Erie. I worked in medicine for over 30 years.... -
Josh's Story
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My name is Josh. I’m 41 years old. I’m a Texan – I grew up in Amarillo and then went to school at... -
Mollie's Story
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My name is Mollie, I'm 24 and I live outside of Atlanta. I live in the same small town where I grew up. It’s the kind... -
Ricky's Story
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My name is Ricky and I’ve had RNS System for about ten months. I used to suffer from a lot... -
Courtney's Story
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My name is Courtney Derr. When I was 23 years old, I started having partial complex epileptic seizures. When a seizure began, I would... -
Susan and Paul's Story
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I’m Susan Hogue and I’m mom. My son is Paul and he’s had epilepsy for almost 30 years now. -
Kim's Story
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I was six months old when it was first realized something was wrong. I was running a fever and my mother took me to the... -
Ouida's Story
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I was 29 years old and had been living and working in China for about a year when I had my first generalized tonic-clonic seizure. -
Will's Story
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My name’s Will and I was born in 1975. Growing up, my visual memory was not very good; I didn’t enjoy reading books... -
Paula's Story
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My name is Paula. The first time I had a grand mal seizure, I was 19 years old. -
Emily's Story
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My name is Emily. In 2006, I was in a car accident during my senior year in high school. After that, I started having ‘staring spells.’ -
Kaeti's Story
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My name is Kaeti. I’m 29 and I live in Anacortes, on the coast of Washington State. I had my first seizure when... -
Kathleen's Story
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My parents were the first ones to know about my condition, and I didn't say much to my family because I was kind of embarrassed. -
Carlo's Story
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My name is Carlo I am 28, and I have had epilepsy for 28 years. My childhood was sprinkled with periods of activity and inactivity. -
Erica's Story
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Hi, my name is Erica, and I had my RNS System placed in 2016. My struggle with epilepsy started about 9 years ago. -
Michael's Story
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My name is Michael, and I live in Texas. I have been living with epilepsy for more than 20 years. My epilepsy was... -
Tyler's Story
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In the autumn of 2012, I suddenly started to stutter. I spoke with a lisp when I was a child, so at the... -
Erick's Story
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I had my first seizure in March 2007, about a month before I turned 19 years old. I was attending a technical college at the... -
Tracey's Story
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One summer they found a cavernous malformation and then they did surgery on that, and it was the scar tissue from that surgery that caused... -
Heather's Story
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My name is Heather. I am 30 years old and I live in North Carolina. I had my first seizure during my senior year... -
Chrissy’s story
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My name is Christine. I live just north of Denver, Colorado with my husband and two small children. I got married in 1998... -
Our Stories - Volume II
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A collection of video stories from Connie, Ian, Luisa, Susan and Paul, Ariceli and Richard, and Brianna -
Ian's Story
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My name is Ian Olsen, I am 27 years old and began having seizures at age 11. -
Tim's Story
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When my son, Gabe, was 4 years old, his mother and I got divorced. After that, Gabe lived with his mom, so he... -
Carolyn's Story
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Hi my name is Carolyn and when I was 35 years old, I began to have grand mal seizures. I... -
Chris's Story
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The first seizure that I can remember happened when I was about 8 years old. I didn’t understand what it meant, but suddenly... -
Jason's Story
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My name is Jason. I am 35 years old and I live near Tampa, Florida with my wife and two children. -
Epilepsy Relief With the RNS System Meant Not Missing Her Son’s Childhood
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Aimee struggled with focal seizures since early childhood. RNS finally provided relief. -
Danny's Story
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My name is Danny. I’m 47 years old and I’ve had epileptic seizures for most of my life starting when I was 12... -
Helen and Marshall's Story
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We first noticed Marshall was having incidents when he was about two years old and at age three, he was diagnosed with epilepsy. He was... -
Kimberly's Story
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At 26, out of nowhere Kimberly Bari suddenly started having seizures and debilitating anxiety. Fate brought her to UCSF Medical Center where doctors have been... -
Hannah’s Story
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As a college student, Hannah experienced strange episodes of déjà vu several times a day. It turned out she had temporal lobe epilepsy — and... -
Janie's Story
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My name is Janie. I live in Georgia with my husband and two children. Epilepsy has limited my life in all sorts of ways. -
Drew's Story
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When I was twelve, a large schwannoma tumor was removed from the right frontal lobe of my brain. A few months after the... -
John's Story
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I experienced my first seizure in August, 1991. I had just graduated from the University of Wisconsin with my bachelor’s degree and was headed down... -
Don's Story
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My name is Don. I live in Chicago where I work as a designer at an engineering firm. I had my first grand mal... -
Adison's Story
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My name is Adison. I’m 23 years old and live near Sacramento, California. I started having seizures when I was...
