Latest News - Epilepsy Foundation Central & South Texas

08 Jul

Brothers Come Together at Camp Brainstorm

By Kathy Kraemer Preparations for Camp Brainstorm start early at the Epilepsy Foundation Central & South Texas. It is a year-round process to recruit more than 65 children with epilepsy, plus volunteer counselors, and volunteer medical staff. Historically, the process of recruiting enough male counselors has been more difficult than identifying enough female counselors. This year, I decided to ask...

21 Jun

My Walk Story: Monica’s Journey to Seizure Freedom

By Monica Santellana Diagnosis My name is Monica and I started having seizures when I was ten years old. I am from Friona, Texas, a very small town in the Texas Panhandle. I am the only one in my family of four that has seizures. Despite taking a wide variety of medications, trying special diets, and having many doctor visits, my seizures continued to...

19 Jun

My Walk Story: Abi’s Angels

By Vanessa Camarillo, Abi’s Mom Diagnosis Our princess, Abi, was diagnosed with complex partial seizures at five years old. She was my baby, my little girl, my angel, who was suffering from something beyond our control. We couldn’t fix her pain or her difficult path ahead. We didn’t know what was going on, and we had so many questions. Adapting The day she...

17 Jun

My Epilepsy Story: America Guerrero

By America Guerrero An Opportunity My name is America Guerrero and I am a summer intern at the Epilepsy Foundation Central & South Texas. I heard about the Epilepsy Foundation through a summer program I was planning to attend at UTSA called Citymester. Before my interview, I did some research on the organization. I was very surprised to see how...

03 Jun

My Walk Story: Team Gato

By Kathy Kraemer Making the Decision For the past five years I have worked as the Social Services Coordinator here at the Epilepsy Foundation Central & South Texas, my family and I have always been assigned parking lot duty at our Walk to END Epilepsy events and we love it!! But, at this year’s Austin Walk to END Epilepsy, I...

Walk to END Epilepsy Central & South Texas

30 May

Steps to Building a Successful Team

The Walk to END Epilepsy registration is now open! That means it’s time to register for a Walk near you and start building a team and achieving fundraising goal ...

21 May

My Walk Story: Heidi’s Backup Band

By Ella Allen Heidi’s Diagnosis We are a large family. I have a brother, Finn, who is 11-years-old, a sister, Lily, who is 16-years-old, and another sister, Heidi, who is nine-years-old. Heidi had her first seizure when she was four-months-old. I was eight-years-old. At that time, I don’t think I had even heard the word “seizure.” We didn’t realize it yet, but it wasn’t...

15 May

My Epilepsy Story: Michael’s Story

Diagnosis I was first diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 17 years old. I was crossing the street with some friends and had my first Tonic-Clonic seizure. Everyone around me was caught off guard. When I woke up in the hospital, I was told something much worse than I had just been hit by a truck; I was told that I...

27 Mar

My Epilepsy Story: Lily Flowers

By Lily Flowers Hi, my name is Lily Flowers, and I am a 13-year-old seventh-grader at Homer J. Morris Middle School in McAllen, TX where I love social studies and theater class. I love legos, baseball, horseback riding, Star Wars, and Harry Potter. I take piano lessons, and I work hard at occupational therapy and physical therapy twice a week, every week,...

25 Mar

My Epilepsy Story: From Law Enforcement to Education

By Ken Marschand How My Epilepsy Journey Began After a traumatic brain injury in 2004, my doctors told me to expect seizures at some point in my life. However, I didn’t know as much as I know now about how seizures vary from person to person. A few years ago, while grocery shopping with my wife, something strange happened. My eyes twitched wildly,...

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