EPILEPSY IS A PHYSICAL CONDITION CHARACTERIZED BY SUDDEN, BRIEF CHANGES IN HOW THE BRAIN WORKS. IT IS A SYMPTOM OF A NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER - A DISORDER THAT AFFECTS THE BRAIN AND SHOWS ITSELF IN THE FORM OF SEIZURES
I have been an epilepsy advocate for 15 years. It is extremely difficult and challenging for an individual to single-handedly raise awareness about epilepsy but it is not totally impossible. Through raising awareness about epilepsy, I had come to know of some wonderful and inspiring people whom I look up to and who had opened doors for me to reach out to the public. My family members and good friends have always been my main motivation in keeping up with my advocacy works. Roughly 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. Epilepsy is 3 times more common than multiple sclerosis and more than 3 times as common as Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy. One person in 50 will develop epilepsy at some time in their life. One in 20 will have a single epileptic seizure.
I am a very ambitious person. I have a die hard passion for doing epilepsy awareness work.
I have lived with epilepsy almost all my life. Went through lots of hard knocks, rejections and bitterness. Whoa la...! My struggles had molded and transformed me from a weakling to a gutsy person with a strong desire to live life to the fullest.
Epilepsy has given me a meaningful dimension in life which is to grab every oppportunity available to create/start an Epilepsy Mania or Epilepsy Wave.
EPILEPSY AWARENESS WORK IS ADDICTIVE AND ADDS SPICES TO MY LIFE
My beloved mother in law, Madam Y L Kwok, has passed away peacefully on 23rd November 2008. My late mother in law was an instrumental pillar stone in my epileptic life. She knew what epilepsy is about and encouraged me to be relentless in my epilepsy awareness work. She was also my dear partner in a lot of my fund raising work. She exudes compassion, humility, elegance, beauty, grace and love. This epilepsy legacy blog is dedicated to my late mother in law in remembrance of her.
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