Epilepsy Awareness Month in Canada

Posted by Greg Cruey Mar 1, 2006

March 1 - March is Epilepsy Awareness Month in Canada. That struck me when I saw it today in part because I have epilepsy. While I've been seizure free now since the late 1980's, there were periods of my life (late high school and much of college) when I averaged 30 seizures a month. While I occasionally had convulsions, most of my seizures were complex partial temporal lobe seizures. I didn't lose consciousness, but I didn't remember anything. I suppose I might have been a special education student in school if such things had existed in my day; I graduated high school just as the Education of All Handicapped Children Act was beginning to be implemented.

Epilepsy Canada and its partners have adopted a lavender ribbon and flower to symbolize the cause for the third year now. The group plans an education campaign.