Kelley Sperry: Get Up Every Day
How many times in your life have you faced a physical or emotional challenge that demanded everything could give? Kelley Sperry faces that kind of a challenge every single day. Parry Romberg Syndrome has been wasting away tissue on half of her face and brain, causing intense migraine headaches, strokes and a severe seizure disorder.
Chelsea’s Legacy
Julie and Doug Hutchison lost their sixteen–year–old daughter Chelsea on April 19, 2009. She passed away after a seizure in her sleep. Sudden Unexpected Death In Epilepsy, or “SUDEP” affects roughly 1 in 1000 people with epilepsy—1 in 100 with uncontrolled seizures. Chelsea’s story emphasizes the urgency and importance of finding cures for epilepsy. And it also reveals how an amazing family can rise to face epilepsy’s most awful challenge.
Paying It Forward
Tina White is a 36-year-old mother of two living in Denver, Colorado. Tina also has epilepsy and suffers from tonic-clonic (grand mal) and complex partial seizures. Epilepsy has been a huge hurdle, but Tina has overcome many challenges with help from a generous community that includes her family and her friends as well as a chocolate lab named Jersey who is a trained epilepsy alert dog. She has also helped herself through her own perseverance and acceptance.