Main description:

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.

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