Where I am now
The sting isn’t there anymore
I am still having breakthrough seizures about once a month or so — that part didn’t vanish. But the fear that used to run every day before it arrived finally eased, a 24/7 DBS setting held well enough to put a weight vest and running shoes back on, and three years of quiet discipline took 154 pounds off a frame epilepsy had quietly taught to stay still.
Pick a chapter below to see how.
Mindset & freedom
How the fear of a seizure stopped running the whole day — and the family that stood behind every step of a long, hard process.
Read the chapter → 02 · The RecoveryDBS tuning & running again
A weight vest, a six-mile first run, an AFO for a right foot that drags — all of it running on a 24/7 low-pulse DBS setting that finally held.
Read the chapter → 03 · The Recovery154 lb weight loss
From 368 pounds to 214 over three years — how a medication side effect became another chain, and the weigh-ins that broke it.
See the numbers →