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After developing epilepsy as an adult, Robert Dodge experienced increasingly dangerous seizures and was seen by specialists on five continents. His firsthand account of adapting to life with epilepsy begins with an overview of this often misunderstood neurological disorder--still attributed to demonic possession in some parts of the world--and recounts his struggle as his seizures became life-threatening. Dodge describes his treatments and their side effects, including four ineffective surgeries that removed an eighth of his brain, and the personal challenges of social stigma.



Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Black Blizzards
  • 2. What Is It?
  • 3. What Happens
  • 4. Demons
  • 5. Useless Eaters
  • 6. New Worlds, New Problems
  • 7. There Were Two Men
  • 8. A Synonym for Stigma
  • 9. They Don’t Like Us Much Either
  • 10. What Is Real?
  • 11. Desperate Decision
  • 12. Cold and Alone
  • 13. Anticlimax
  • 14. The Grids
  • 15. Third Time Lucky?
  • 16. What For?
  • 17. ¬Split-Brain?
  • 18. Clearing Out the Rest
  • 19. Carrying On
  • 20. Heavy Weather—“Black Blizzards” Strike
  • 21. Difficulties Leaving
  • 22. Issues Back in the U.S.A.
  • Chapter Notes
  • Sources
  • Index

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      Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/13/2020 12:11:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781476683966, 978-1476683966
      ISBN10: 1476683964

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      After developing epilepsy as an adult, Robert Dodge experienced increasingly dangerous seizures and was seen by specialists on five continents. His firsthand account of adapting to life with epilepsy begins with an overview of this often misunderstood neurological disorder--still attributed to demonic possession in some parts of the world--and recounts his struggle as his seizures became life-threatening. Dodge describes his treatments and their side effects, including four ineffective surgeries that removed an eighth of his brain, and the personal challenges of social stigma.



      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Preface
      • Introduction
      • 1. Black Blizzards
      • 2. What Is It?
      • 3. What Happens
      • 4. Demons
      • 5. Useless Eaters
      • 6. New Worlds, New Problems
      • 7. There Were Two Men
      • 8. A Synonym for Stigma
      • 9. They Don’t Like Us Much Either
      • 10. What Is Real?
      • 11. Desperate Decision
      • 12. Cold and Alone
      • 13. Anticlimax
      • 14. The Grids
      • 15. Third Time Lucky?
      • 16. What For?
      • 17. ¬Split-Brain?
      • 18. Clearing Out the Rest
      • 19. Carrying On
      • 20. Heavy Weather—“Black Blizzards” Strike
      • 21. Difficulties Leaving
      • 22. Issues Back in the U.S.A.
      • Chapter Notes
      • Sources
      • Index

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