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Article: EPILEPSY: The people who get on with life when a seizure could strike at any time.
- Article from:
- Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2006
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ABOUT one in 20 of us will have a seizure at some time in our lives, and one in 131 of us will go on to be diagnosed with epilepsy. And yet membership of the Peterborough branch of Epilepsy Action dwindled to an all-time low a couple of years ago. Features writer Jemma Walton finds out what it's like to live with a condition that could cause seizures at any time.
Like a lot of mums, when Pam Hadlow goes to bed she turns the baby monitor up so she can hear if her little one is having any trouble during the night.
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