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This is my oldest sister Melissa Brooke, in 2010 she got up for church and took a shower, about 10 minutes later my other sister Brittany found her in the shower on the floor shaking, not speaking, nothing. Brittany went and got my mom and which my mom called 911, when the ambulance came they took her to the hospital and we found out that Brook had epilepsy. But to my mom it wasn’t someone new, when Brooke was four my mom and her were at a theme park and Brooke fell to the ground and started having a seizure
Epilepsy is a common and diverse set of chronic neurological disorders characterized by seizures. Some definitions of epilepsy require that seizures be recurrent and unprovoked, but others require only a single seizure combined with brain alterations which increase the chance of future seizures. In many cases a cause cannot be identified; however, factors that are associated include brain trauma, strokes, brain cancer, and drug and alcohol misuse among others.
Everyday she have to take tons on meds and if she doesn’t she’ll have a seizure.
She can’t do a lot of stuff my family can do. She can’t go to concert anymore because of lights they use for concerts, she can’t drive anymore, she can’t take a shower home alone, can’t walk upstairs by herself, etc.
My sister has had over 20 seizures in the past three years, and just a few months ago my family and I almost lost her, doctors put her on some med and the next day she was feeling sick and couldn’t see barely. We found out that she had a overdoes from doctors. She was in the hospital for almost a week.
Brooke didn’t let this from stopping her from living her life, she’s now in college to become a photographer, it as always been a dream of her’s and now she’s living it!
I didn’t post this to get famous, I posted this to see a real smile on my sister’s face. I’m tired of seeing her in pain, I just want to see a real loving smile!

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I want to be able to love again.. To be able to put myself out there again. To not think of the bad things that could happen. To not think of the bad that could come out of things. I wish I could be that happy, carefree, loving person again. I want it all back. You pushed me to the point that I’m scared of love. I thought I knew what love was, but really I don’t. I don’t know what it feels like to get butterflies or to feel wanted. I just know how bad it feels when you realize it’s not what you thought.. That all of it was a lie.. Thanks for that.

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