Seizing Control: managing epilepsy and others' reactions to it - a memoir

Beretsky, Laura

ISBN 10: 194838096X / ISBN 13: 9781948380966

Published by Haley's, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seizing Control: managing epilepsy and others' reactions to it - a memoir
• Publisher: Haley's
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194838096X
• ISBN 13: 9781948380966
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Despite a lifelong challenge managing epilepsy, Laura Beretsky has led a good life with friends, rewarding work, and a life partner. After having a grand mal seizure at work, she was devastated by subsequent job insecurity-her superiors sidelined her. When her first child was born three years later, she worried that loss of awareness during seizures jeopardized his safety. Laura opted for brain surgery despite terrifying, possibly life-threatening complications.

Seizing Control offers candid descriptions of rattling physical experiences of smaller and grand mal seizures and patient self-advocacy employed to get the best possible medical care.

About the Author

Laura Beretsky is a writer and community activist. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband, children, and two cats where she's active on the local community preservation committee and high school parent-teacher-student association. She is a part- time grant writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science department. Her writing has appeared in publications of the Health Story Collaborative and the National Library of Poetry and broadcast on the Cognoscenti section of radio station WBUR Boston. Her website at is lauraberetsky.com/