Whitney Web Site
A start at my "Autobiography"
Selected stories by Dick Whitney
Living with Epilepsy
Peg and I both have Epilepsy, having lived with it much of our
lives.
I have had 2 Grand Mal Seizures, but fortunately have been under
control
with medication since 1966. Peg has
Temporal Lobe
Epilepsy and is less
controlled; her first seizure was as an infant. We are both
fortunate,
however, to have had supportive families and live relatively
normal
lives.
Peg had brain surgery to
remove her right hippo-campus on June 22, 2011 and was released
from the
hospital on Jun 26! She is doing very well and time will tell
how
seizrure free she is, but so far she is great! For recent
information on Peg, check this link
out.
In 1967, I wrote a High School Term paper on Epilepsy, and
decided
to
post it here. I also found the materials / pamphlets I used as
resources
at the time. Check out this pamphlet and the arcaic laws that were
on
the
books in 1965:
Problems
of
the Epileptic - 1967 Term paper by Richard Whitney
This is a 4mb pdf file for
download
Link
to
PDF
file to print out the above 1965 pamphlet
We have come a long way!!!
Epilepsy
Foundation
website-
MA and RI office
That's me, Dick Whitney, working on a school Term Paper a couple
years
earlier (1965)
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Whitney
Autobiography
Updated on June 22, 2011