The Tile Key Fob and How It Has Saved my Sanity with my Memory Loss
Did you know that epilepsy can affect your memory? I sure do! Research has show that epilepsy can affect several ways your memory functions; attention and encoding, memory storage, and memory retrieval. It can affect…
Welcome to Christine’s Corner with the BC Epilepsy Society
Hey there! My name is Christine Jamieson and I work with the BC Epilepsy Society as an Impact Speaker. I am also a person living with epilepsy who has the titles of Miss BC 2018/2019…
How Do I Keep My Bedroom Epilepsy Safe?
As people living with epilepsy, no matter if we are living on our own or with others, a key thing is making sure that our homes are safe, which includes our bedroom. To find out more about the ways I keep my bedroom safer for my type of seizures, please see below: I find that […]
Three Ways I Stay Safe While Camping
My fiancé and I love to go camping. Last year, we were lucky enough to come into possession of a 1978 Trillium trailer. It’s a full fiberglass body and only 12 feet, making it ideal for myself, my fiancé and our three dogs. Come summer, you will often find us out at a campsite or […]
Three Tips for Safe Travels with Epilepsy
I love to travel but sometimes travelling can be scary, particularly if you have health concerns such as epilepsy to think about. I first started travelling on my own in my fourth year of university, when I had the amazing opportunity to work in Jakarta, Indonesia for four months. Living abroad was a terrifying thing, […]
How Do I Live Better with my Epilepsy?
Here are the six ways that I live better with my epilepsy: (1) I Tell My Family That I Am Not Doing Well: One of the biggest things I always do is I make sure that my fiancé knows when I’m not doing well. I let him know that I am struggling a little bit […]