November 15th, 2012

It was my last day at school before surgery. I remember thinking what am I going to be like after surgery? The same? Different? I just had to wait to find out. My teacher told me, that if they let me keep the piece of my brain their removing bring it in a jar so …

November 7th, 2012

It was just the beginning of November, beautiful weather, leaves falling, everything was perfect. November 7th, 2012. My mom and I were headed to Phoenix Children's Hospital to see the Neurosurgeon and tell us more details about the surgery. When we got there I felt pretty good and was like this isn’t gonna be too …

P. E. M. U.

(Year of Sixth Grade) The PEMU. Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit.  It was a week of getting off my medication to see where in my brain the seizures are coming from. I got hooked up to a bunch of cords, and was pretty excited seeing monitors monitoring my brain. When the lady was putting cords all …

5th Grade Misery…

When I found out I was diagnosed with epilepsy, I didn’t know how to feel. Was I supposed to just forget about it? Who cares? Just give up on life? I really just didn’t know. At the beginning it wasn’t constant seizing and seemed to be just once in a while, and like every few …

THE BEGINNING

August 2010 was the beginning of misery. It was on a early Thursday morning, 4th grade, I was nine years old. It was 9:40 in the morning and our class went out to the baseball fields where all the buses were parked to practice evacuation. When I was on my way there I started to …

Why I Quit Volleyball to Golf…

At age eight I first started out with soccer and tumbling. I would do Mondays and Wednesdays soccer, and Thursdays tumbling. I did it for about 2 years. Then when I had medical problems come, I needed to quit tumbling, and I stayed a little longer with soccer, but then I felt like it was …

3 Things You Should Know at the age of 7…

Some of us learn simple easy lessons at a young age of 7 or at the age of 13! But, when it comes around, its best to learn mostly everything at the age of seven. 1. At the age of seven I was taught how to do my laundry. Laundry is a piece of cake. …

How to Survive High School…

High school is full of gossip, drugs, profanity, and everything surrounding it. On some days yes, I'm like uh I’m sick of this, LITERALLY, when is this trashy teen years going to end?! But at the same time I’ve had to learn my own ways to survive high school. First, One ear out the other  …