Each year, more than 50 children ages 6-18 attend the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago’s Camp Blackhawk. For a full week, kids are treated to the outdoor experience of a lifetime.
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2011 Greater Chicago Epilepsy 5K – Chicago
The 2011 Greater Chicago Epilepsy 5K web site is up and running! Participants may now register online or by contacting Lauren at 312-939-8622 ext. 209. On May 21st, we will be hosting the Montrose Harbor Walk/Run in Chicago. Not only is this a new location, but participants will now have the opportunity to be officially [...]
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2011 Greater Chicago Epilepsy 5K – Wheaton
TThe 2011 Greater Chicago Epilepsy 5K web site is up and running! Participants may now register online or by contacting Lauren at 312-939-8622 ext. 209. This year, the Wheaton Walk/Fun Run will be held on May 14th at the Danada Forest Preserve. For more information, visit the 2011 Greater Chicago Epilepsy 5K web site.
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Purple Day – Thank You
A Message to all our loyal “Purple Day” volunteers: To each and every person who helped, before, during, and after Purple Day – Our most sincere thanks! Did you number canisters and or put the labels on them? THANK YOU! Did you help with invitations for the “Stand Up” Event? THANK YOU! Did [...]
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Community Donation Center Offers Convenient New Way to Support Epilepsy Services
For 65 years, the Chicagoland community has generously supported the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago in its mission to provide programs and services for the more than 125,000 people in the Chicago area living with epilepsy and their families, and fund vital research to find a cure. Recently, the Foundation announced a new way for [...]
Researchers: “One in 26 Will Develop Epilepsy”
Epilepsy, a common and serious neurologic disorder that affects millions of people, is not getting the public attention and funding for research it deserves, according to an editorial on a study published in the January 4, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. “Epilepsy has a major impact [...]
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Young Chicagoan Takes Epilepsy Awareness Message to Washington DC
When twelve-year-old Chicagoan Jonathan Ramirez visits Washington DC at the end of this month, he’ll be doing more than just taking in the sights and sounds of our nation’s capital. He’ll be meeting with members of Congress, in order to educate them on what it means to be a young person growing up with epilepsy, [...]
Noah
Noah was 2.5 years old when he had his first seizure, a grand mal, on Thanksgiving Day 2003. Over the next few weeks he would have different types of seizures and after starting medication, he had hundreds of seizures a day. We found that the doctoral care we had at the time was not experienced [...]
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Richard
My mom first noticed my seizure when I was about 2 years old because I would just stare out into space. The doctors at the time dismissed it. It was not until I was 12 years old that I had my first grand mal seizure. The doctors at the time thought it was pesudoseizures but [...]
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Tamara
My name is Tamara, and I have Epilepsy. Most times when I talk about my Epilepsy or seizures, people get freaked out, they get scared in their own sense. Whether it’s them cringing for my disease, not wanting to drive with me, or asking excessive questions about how awful it is; I get it almost [...]
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