November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month !
November 1st – National Epilepsy Awareness Month Begins Today! Today, November 1st, marks the beginning of National Epilepsy Awareness Month. Although Mickie’s Miracles is critically focused on stopping pediatric epilepsy and getting infants and children the urgent care they need to ensure quality of life, we believe it’s important to increase awareness about epilepsy […]
A Seizure Log Your Doctor Will Love
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Seizure Log your Doctor will Love By Colleen Jendreas With epilepsy, keeping track of seizures is incredibly important. Your Epileptologist will be relying heavily on the information your provide and if you provide ALL right the info, it could save you a trip to the EMU (Epilepsy Monitoring Unit). Here is how […]
Reflections
For the past few weeks, I have delved through old videos and pictures of Mickie during her early battle with Epilepsy to provide content for the Mickie’s Miracles website.
Women Making History
I have a long time friend whose invitations’ elicit a fast response from me. Ninon has had this effect on me since we first met in LA while working in the entertainment industry. She is a political sage and an intuitively powerful networker. So when she invited me to attend Senator Barbara Boxer’s Annual Women Making History Luncheon in Beverly Hills on August 23, I gladly accepted.
Inspire and Be Inspired
This past Monday I had the honor of making a presentation to an incredible group of special needs parents and caregivers in our community. I had been looking forward to this opportunity for months. This organization was created by a friend and pediatric nurse who witnessed a major gap in services for special needs children.
Long Term Monitoring (LTM) Part 2
I believe in my heart Mikayla would not be alive if we had not found Dr. Mary Zupanc, Chair of Pediatric Neurology and the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at CHOC Children’s Hospital.