Below is an older post I did on the group.  It lists all Websites I use
except for Howdy Dave's one which is listed at end of one of his posts.   (I
had an older format of this that included his too, but have it carefully
stored somewhere I can't find at the moment... :-<  )
   If you go to the Ep. Foundation (efa) site, you might be able to find
the type of szr. he has unless you know it from the Doctor and just didn't
list it above.   ONE of the seizures that can include Emotional Outbursts
might be under Complex Partial or Temporal Lobe (older term) seizures,  as
those parts used to be called 'The Seat of the Soul' in days of yore, as
they're where we appear to store our Emotions.    When seizures start in one
of those it's not uncommon for us to lose awareness but to become emotional
beyond what we would under 'Normal operating' .   G.
   Older post -->
I've just hooked onto a reply by you to turbinado on the group (she just had
surgery in Vancouver for seizures, and started posting again about a week
before note at bottom).
  At END there I'll paste a post you might not have seen.  I used to post
this about each 10 days for 'new people', of websites I had found over the
past 7 years, on alt.support.epilepsy.  The *only one that's missing is the
address of site put up by Dave Naess.  HE has a Vagus Nerve Stimulator
installed (although I had heard that it might be disconnected) and has had
seizures since he was a child.   He was also one of the 2-3 **Founders of
alt.support.epilepsy.
  **If you can find a message of his in the History of the Group, or he
does a new post (he hasn't posted for about 2 weeks),  he puts his Website
address at end of his posts.  His site is more oriented toward living with
seizures and the Vagus N.Stimulator, but may have other things of use to
your quest.
   THIS post (now) lists about 5 International (N.America) sites that are
already in-place.  If you set something up for Toronto or Ontario Ep.
groups, you might want to include some links to these.  You could write
Julie Walton at the Idaho Website about getting permission if you intend to
'bury' their work within your Website here.    She often posts the addresses
on the group for people internationally who are newly diagnosed.  There is
an Excellent First Aid chart for General Seizures, plus Seizures in Water
and what to do.   Both she and Dave have links to the efa.org site which is
the U.S. Ep. Foundation of America.   I think that's one of the sites I
list.  EFA has general information plus a Medications Glossary that includes
Side Effects or printable pages specific to particular anti ep medications
(aeds).
   I had thought the *Toronto Ep. Association already had these websites
since I had sent them to Geoff or ?? about 2 years ago.   That's why I
couldn't understand why you appeared to be starting at Square One on this
search, when that info. should have been readily available where you were?

   If you're on the Ontario Ep. Group, I don't know how that relates to
Toronto one, and Vice Versa.  I *Hope Toronto hasn't collapsed,  I give them
$400-600 a year for 3-4 newsletters, and expect a Tax Receipt for my April
Tax Filing (I didn't go back to see if it arrived last year already).

   Here's the Post I referred to at Top.  (If you want to shorten this, and
your editor won't, you can Forward it Inline to yourself and Cut out this
Long part, keeping the www addresses for brevity.  That's what *I do with
some longer posts on alt.support.epilepsy group.)    Gordon.
----- Original Message -----
From: "boardmember"   (older member's post that I replied to--  G./  )

Newsgroups: alt.support.epilepsy
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: I need your help

**********************    MY Older Post is Here
Some weblinks you might not have seen a few days ago, that have useful
information about seizures.  You can likely find your seizure type there
(sounds like Complex Partial like mine?), and it shows that we're not aware
of what we say or do while 'away'.  If it would help any of them you could
print the page, so they'd see how 'easy' it is to make your return more
comfortable and quick, compared to getting into a panic about what to do.
   The main First Aid site I use (Julie put together for us, and Idaho)
is -->
http://www.epilepsyidaho.org/seizure.htm  .
(Check the description of 'what we do' for each type.  That's why I thought
your's would be either Complex Partial (Temporal Lobe) or Grand Mal from
description.)

    If in water (swimming etc.) at seizure onset, there's some differences
what to do, that I think are described at
http://www.epilepsyidaho.org/seizure2.htm  .

    Learning about Epilepsy for people newly diagnosed or helping others
understand. http://www.epilepsyidaho.org/learn.htm  , and the General
doorway that eventually links to all above but may have other stuff for
people near to Idaho is at http://www.epilepsyidaho.org   .

  Those have lots of useful stuff about taking the 'edge' off learning to
handle seizures for people newly diagnosed and people around us -- family
and co-workers, etc.
  If any Medications are prescribed, the U.S. Ep. Foundation has a large
database of info. but also a Medications Glossary within  http://efa.org
site.       G./

"PIPER" <> wrote in message

  While I think of it (and still have it)  here's another older link I had
about Complex Partial seizures. I didn't OPEN This, lately, so don't know if
it's written for us ordinary people or is a Medical Article. But you could
look here anyway, wrt. Complex partials if you thought those might apply -->
http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_complexpartial.html   (that blank
spot in centre is an underscore if you need to type it yourself anytime.)
G. //

Howdy!

See the "EPILEPSY" page on my site.

http://www.howdydave.com/epilepsy.html