Hailey Adkisson

When my daughter was diagnosed at 6 months old with a rare form of epilepsy called infantile spasms, I knew very little about the disease. My ideas regarding epilepsy and...

Prior to August 2020, I knew very little about epilepsy. What I did know came from movies and TV shows. I pictured full-body shaking, eyes rolling back, grand mal seizures...

"Why?" It's the question I asked myself over and over after my daughter's epilepsy diagnosis and throughout much of the next year of failed medications and failed brain surgeries. "Why...

"We made the best decision based on the information we had at the time." It's the mantra I repeat to myself when the feeling of guilt starts to creep in...

"This probably means she won’t be able to get her driver’s license," I remember saying to my husband when we first received our daughter's epilepsy diagnosis. At the time, that...