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A healing of epilepsy opened life's doors
AS A VERY young boy I was plagued with convulsions. I'd wake up at the wrong end of the bed, and my brother would tell me I'd had a convulsion during the night. At first this happened only once or twice a year. At the age of 12, my mother placed me in Boston's Children's Hospital for examination. I went through a series of tests but was not given any treatment or medicine, and then I returned home. The hospital staff offered no solution to the problem.
Four years later, during my junior year in high school, I had two convulsions on two successive Fridays, which frightened both my teachers and the other students. I was playing basketball at the time and was told to stop playing for a while. After two weeks, I resumed playing, but two weeks later, at home, I had two convulsions a few hours apart. My mother, who was a medical nurse, then arranged for me to go to Massachusetts General Hospital for further examination. I was given a series of tests over a two-day period, but again was given no medical treatment or medicine.
My mother came to bring me home, and, before leaving the hospital, we had a meeting with the head physician, who told me that I had been having epileptic convulsions. He then said: "We really don't know what to do about you or for you, but we think your condition has something to do with your diet. We think that if you go on a special diet and eat nothing that is difficult to digest, you might lead a half-normal life."
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About the author
Ralph Wright lives in Pompano Beach, Florida, and is currently writing his fourth technical book on thermosetting plastics materials.
November 10, 2003 issue
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Health—and the healer within
Warren Bolon
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letters
with contributions from Irv Levine, Roger Colwill, Dan Ziskind, B. H. Jones
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items of interest
with contributions from Paul Maguire, Chris De Benedetti, Diane Evans, Tom Harpur
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Protest for HEALTH
By Channing Walker
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From health crisis to healing, God was with us
Jacklyn J. Williams, Judy L. Wolff
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Our Mother who art in heaven
By Marta Greenwood
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Beyond comfort food
By Amonda Rose Igoe
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A healing of epilepsy opened life's doors
By Ralph Wright
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God was GREATER than the pain
By Jonathan Wells
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ONE FAMILY the world over
By Peter Jay Jensen
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Rest, renewal, and delight
By Kim Shippey Senior Writer
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No curse to reverse
By Jonathan McCardell
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New trust in God brings health, hope, and healing
Heponina Carlos Jordão Cavalcante