“I was 15 and he was 19, 20. We started to meet up for a while, and most of the time, four out of five days he was fine and then the next moment he’d just turn. He did tell me he was on very strong anti-depressant pills and they affected him big time, so he often did not like to take them.”
Josie (Karen’s daughter) preparing sandwiches ahead of handing them out later that evening. Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in homelessness, usage of food banks tripling in twelve months, the bedroom tax and changes to the benefits system all conspiring to make life harder and harder for so many of our society. Karen, herself on health […]
The last few months have been a tumultuous time for Simon. His seizures, both Nocturnal and Atonic grew in frequency and severity resulting in numerous injuries. As a result his visits and stays in hospital increased. His medication was constantly adjusted to try to tackle a situation spiralling ever out of control. Through it all […]
I’d met Eugene in the street a couple of years ago. Her style standing out, looking like every woman I remember as a child in the 1970s. We would stop and talk whenever our paths crossed in town, until late last summer when Eugene disappeared.
Tilney1’s days, a reflection of the selected memories that play with constant repetition within his mind are day upon day the same. He wakes alone from a night spent alone after another day of solitude.
I’ve been working on the series, ‘Living with Epilepsy’ for around 8 months now. One of the people I’ve been working very closely with has been Simon. Simon has acute epilepsy and suffers a range of seizure types one of which is called Atonic seizure or drop seizure. Simon’s drop attacks are pretty much the same as being knocked immediately unconscious.