I firstly want to apologise for the lack of blogs in recent
months – a lot had been going on behind the scenes (many of you close to us
will know the details), I haven’t felt quite ready to share it all yet but
hopefully next week we will have some good news to share with you all so watch
this space!
But today is Purple Day and so that is what I want to blog
about. First of all Happy Purple Day to
you all, I hope all my fellow epilepsy warriors have a seizure free day and
that all your events are a success. If
you don’t have epilepsy thank you so much for taking the time to read my blog and
learn a bit about epilepsy.
So Epilepsy Action are asking today – ‘What does epilepsy
look like?’ That’s an interesting question… what does epilepsy look like to
me? Well to me it’s something that lurks
in the corner, I am lucky because most of the time it doesn’t affect my life, I
take my tablets and my seizures stay away most of the time just rearing their
ugly head every now and again.
But it is
always there – impacting on the bigger picture, making me more reliant on
others for lifts or just because I am tired, making me have to risk assess
things I wouldn’t have thought twice about before. But epilepsy has also given more meaning in
my life – it has given me a way to help others affected by the condition and
allowed me to meet so many inspirational people who have changed the way I
think about life.
Tonight I have been invited to the fantastic Young Epilepsy
Champion Awards which I am really looking forward to – it will be a chance to
hear so many inspirational stories and I will share them with you all in my
next blog which I promise will be in the next few days J
So once again Happy Purple Day everyone!
