Resilience-Its How Our Fight Against Seizures Will Be Won

The battle against seizures is going to continue to be a difficult journey, but we cannot give up ever. Nothing good ever comes easily, and without the blood, sweat, and tears that are needed to have been experienced, for a major success. A fine example of this resilience that is required, to help Vanderbilt University's researchers and us who are applying the footwork, is none other than Abraham Lincoln. While some southerners may take umbrage, you relax, its been 150 years ago, and this is about seizures my dear friends below the Mason Dixon Line. Look at Abraham Lincoln's life, and what he was able to accomplish, before meeting some killer thespians such as John Wilkes Booth.

Abraham Lincoln was born into humble circumstances, and lost the love of his life at a young age. One of his children passed away, he had a nervous breakdown, and failed in business not once but twice. Mr. Lincoln, although he did not have the best fashion sense with that top hat of his, continued to run into misery politically also. He lost races in 1843, 1849, 1855, and 1856. Four years later he was President of the United States, during a tumultous time in American history. He did not give up in the face of challenges, and our efforts to defeat seizures shall be meant with similar gusto. There are going to be bumps in the road, and while I do not wish to hear "Sic Semper Tyrannis" yelled in my direction, I do hope that we can as a group smile in celebration when we've found that cure for these terrible seizures.

Some have said it is impossible to cure seizures. Perhaps they are right, but that is such a defeatist type of lifestyle, that I have nothing good to say about it. If we can have men land on the Moon, the invention of so many vaccines and medications that extend and or save lives, then why in the heck can we not have a cure for these irregular electrical impulses. People called Thomas Edison crazy with his "lightbulb idea," which might have been prior to the days of illumination. Yet with all of the discoveries having been made, and the resilience that we are all capable of, it can be done. We will defeat seizures, through our hard work and willingness to fight for what we believe in. It won't require us to carry around the boombox that Mr. Lincoln has in this picture, but we need to be loud and proud. :)