This large-print book is 16 pt. font. This is the 4th version of the same epilepsy memoir originally published in 2014 with some noticeable additions. This is a true epilepsy saga from age 11 to age 53. Don Miller has had epilepsy for 42 years now. Mr. Miller was discouraged by the lack of epilepsy-oriented books at the beginning of this book's conception in 2005. There were no books about epilepsy at the library and books about epilepsy were few and far between back in 2005, and those that were written were by doctors and nurses, there was nothing for the lay-person that would help cure that error. Epilepsy: The Lightning Storm... was one man's solution to that problem, an automotive format: the human / the car; the engine / the brain. We are all cars and E people just have faulty electrical systems. MILEPOST 1-A DETOUR FROM THE "NORMAL LIFE" Gentlemen, Line Up Your Cars, Start Your Engines, Green Flag, Gun Your Engines, Go Go Go! Genesis of the epilepsy, the beginning of the Electric Highway and the ups and downs of epilepsy, depression, and paranoid schizophrenia: Noble Jameson, my first neurologist, said "I've seen this many times before. When adolescence ends, your seizures will stop." My seizures will stop when adolescence ends; that was seven or eight years; seven years seemed a lifetime, eight years seemed an eternity. So began the mounting frustration and exasperation. That statement has echoed in my mind during a 40-year prolonged adolescence. The brain is like a car's engine-it controls what we do and where we go and some of us have faulty electrical systems. In adolescence, testosterone shifted my brain into overdrive and flicked the seizure switch that controlled the firing of my spark plugs to the off position-it has remained there for nearly four decades. At the end of my sixth-grade-year during the hot summer of 1974 my engine overheated and I had two tonic-clonic-known at the time as grand mal-seizures. At the time I experienced ictal (seizural) amnesia. So began a 40-year-journey on Epilepsy's Electric Highway.
About the Author: Don Miller was born toward the beginning of the psychedelic sixties, 1963, growing up he was lean and fast, although damn near blind due to near-sightedness: a Mustang muscle car. In 1974 he had a head on collision with E--as epilepsy is known to the diagnosed--and began having seizures. His epilepsy is idiopathic, meaning they don't know the reason he has seizures, he just does. He seeks to educate about epilepsy in his writing, both non-fiction and fiction. He is in the process of writing the Unholy Resurrections series, 4 books, titles Death is Not the End; Psychic Gift With a Price; Psychic Tremors; & lastly Psychic Vibrations. Mr. Miller is celibate, never had sex: protected or otherwise with a woman or a man and publicly declares his virginity. Epilepsy, in Victorian times was said to be caused by excessive masturbation, and that brings to mind, just how much is excessive and where did they get such a peculiar idea. Don would like you to know that his epilepsy is not caused by excessive masturbation, whatever that means. His seizures are idiopathic in nature, they don't know why he seizes, he just does, and not from masturbating.