Epilepsy on Our Terms: Stories by Children with Seizures and Their Parents (The Brainstorm Series) - Softcover

Montouris, Georgia D.; Pellock, John M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195330900 ISBN 13: 9780195330908

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This enlightening book presents the firsthand personal accounts of children with seizure disorders and their parents. In their own words, these children and parents vividly describe the experiences of handling the crisis of the initial seizure, adjusting to the diagnosis of epilepsy, coping with seizures, managing medications and side effects, and dealing with health care providers, teachers, schoolmates, siblings, and friends. Reveals the terror, uncertainty, and frustration felt by children and parents after an initial seizure or a diagnosis of epilepsy. Documents the ongoing trials, tribulations and triumphs of coping with seizures, medication schedules and side effects, health care providers and hospitals, schoolmates, siblings, relatives and friends. These accounts provide realistic insights into the myriad issues encountered in living with childhood epilepsy. The book also includes a straightforward medical discussion of childhood seizures, written in layperson's terms by Dr. Pellock; a glossary of medical terms; and a guide for schoolteachers and parents written by William Murphy, the Executive Director of the Epilepsy Association of Massachusetts. Appendices provide a directory of Epilepsy Foundation of America affiliates; a list of recommended books, publications, and videotapes; and information about the Epilepsy Foundation of America's Winning Kids program.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Schachter is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Georgia Montouris is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University Medical Center. John M. Pellock is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0195330900
• ISBN 13: 9780195330908
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Schachter Steven C.