“I’ve probably had more than a thousand seizures...

“I’ve probably had more than a thousand seizures in my life. I’ve fallen down everywhere. On the street, the sidewalk, the subway tracks, and down the stairs. I wanted to be a nurse, but I had to drop out of school because the epilepsy took my memory. Anything that I studied at night, I would forget by the next morning. I’ve got medicine now that keeps the seizures down to once a month, but that stuff messes you up too.”