Stephen Allen Bikes the Colorado Trail
It has been over 4 years since Seize the World Foundation founder, Stephen Allen, completed his round the world bicycle tour to raise awareness for epilepsy. In fact, Seize the World was founded as a conduit to inform the world of this tour and inspire others living with epilepsy. In July, Stephen embarked on another inspirational adventure, a 2-week mountain bikepacking tour of the Colorado Trail.
Sam Inglese: Greeting Epilepsy
I intend to attract and thus educate the rest of the population by producing a documentary about us and that is not strictly limited to medical topics. No doctors, no medications, no numbers. Just us and our stories.
Ride Your Own Course
The children I’ve taught over the past twenty years never got into a panic when I had seizures. I think this was a good experience for them because they learned about epilepsy and because they got to see that there’s more than one type of seizure. My position has also given me the opportunity to teach my students about the different types of seizures and about how to help those with epilepsy.
Stand Up to Epilepsy
Delaney Bjork is a vibrant, happy, fifteen year old girl–but she recently had to face a challenging medical diagnosis when she learned that she had epilepsy. After that, she also had to face bullying at school, both from students and teachers, as well as a host of challenges from medications. But today, Delaney has put most of her challenges behind her in order to become a stronger person.
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.
Richard Shane’s Brilliant Outcome Through Surgery and Community Involvement
Over the course of 22 years Richard Shane estimates that he has experienced 2,500 simple partial and generalized seizures. However, thanks to epilepsy surgery Richard has now been seizure free for over eight years.
Kyoto and the Shinkansen
Click here to read the article in the University of Colorado Alumni Magazine, Coloradan, about Seize The World, if you have not already done so! Life in Kyoto, Japan is good. My friend Ian McKittrick and I rode about 200 miles from Narita, Japan through Tokyo and around Mt. Fuji to the city of Hamamatsu […]
Back to Japan
Japan…It is my first time back here since I visited when I was three years old. The only things I remember since that visit are a vague – but intense – excitement about the Shinkansen – Japan’s bullet train – and Tokyo Disneyland. This time, my friend Ian McKittrick has flown out to join me for two […]
Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China was the perfect monument to wrap up my tour of China. Gigantic, well-made, lots of shopping options throughout the entire process of my visit. A thoroughly representative example of my experience in China. And a great way to celebrate Thanksgiving. This, of course, makes me […]
China
The past week or so has been a nice tour from Nanning, China to Guilin, China. Two metropolises – a word that seems very easy to use here – in the south. I was held up in Nanning for a week before I could depart with another case of travel sickness…that kind of general nastiness […]