August Alsina Quotes

According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures.

My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.

My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

I was a really sick kid. I developed epilepsy when I was eight years old, and I would have violent seizures, and I would - literally, I couldn't get out of bed.

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl.

The doctor gave me several warnings: Never tell anyone unless necessary, because I might be ostracized. Call it 'seizure disorder,' not epilepsy, because fewer people would be frightened. Try to choose a profession as free from stress as possible.

Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or co-workers - because there's still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll.

By the time I arrived for my freshman year at Swarthmore College in 1979, I had already had many seizures, although my family, friends and I did not know it.

No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things.

My girlfriend says I have frontal-lobe epilepsy. I have visions. They have slowed down as I've gotten older, but I still have them.

Cancer is a serious subject, one many battle daily.

I had breast cancer.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

I told you I was sick.

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

It zonked me for three days. I kept falling down and the people at the lab assigned someone to follow me around with a mattress

I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.