Free at Last, My Lifetime Battle to Overcome Epilepsy

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My interests and hobbies include gardening, canning, writing, and counseling others who are afflicted with epilepsy. I have now counseled well over sixteen hundred people around the world who have or had epilepsy.

I have written my autobiography on my life with epilepsy which is entitled "Free at Last, My Lifetime Battle to Overcome Epilepsy" and it will be available in 2007.

I host two of the only epilepsy chat rooms online each and every week. Epilepsy Chat I on America Online is held every Wednesday night from 7-10 pm est. Anyone interested in joining us, should email me at LisaM11463@aol.com so I can send you the link. Epilepsy Surgery Group 1 on Yahoo! also has a chat room which is held every Saturday night from 7-10 pm est.

The address for Epilepsy Surgery Group 1 on Yahoo! is: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/EpilepsySurgeryGroup1

The instructions on how to enter Epilepsy Surgery Group 1 are as follows:

1) Make sure you are signed up for Yahoo! Messenger. If you are not, go to www.yahoo.com and create a screen name for yourself. Once you have Yahoo! Messenger installed, sign onto Yahoo! and click where it says Add. Add JoanofArc1994 to your Messenger list.

2) Once you have added JoanofArc1994 to your Yahoo! Messenger list, I will add you to my Messenger. You will then be receiving what is called an Invite to Conference on your computer screen each Saturday night. Make sure that you are signed onto Yahoo and are NOT Invisible, or you will not be able to receive the invites.

3) This is very important...go to the very top left hand side of your Yahoo! Messenger list where it says Messenger. Click on Messenger. Click Preferences. Now click Chat. Make sure you DO NOT have Ignore Chat Invitations box checked off, or you will not be able to receive my invites on Saturday nights.

Hope to see you in the chat room. We have a lot of wonderful members just waiting to answer your questions and concerns. All are welcome. Whether you are a brain surgery candidate, Vagus Nerve Stimulator, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, External Responsive Neurostimulator System surgery candidates...or if you are not a surgery candidate at all. Our group does not discriminate. If you or someone you know has epilepsy, you are more than welcome to join our group and our chat room.

"Changing the misconceptions society has about epilepsy, by educating one person at a time"...Lisa-Marie Kinsman

My name is Lisa-Marie Kinsman and I have been an epilepsy advocate/counselor since 1995. I myself had epilepsy for 31 years. My doctors are convinced that I was born with it back in 1963, although I was not officially diagnosed until the age of four.

I have been through more life altering experiences than any human should ever have to endure. I was molested by a doctor whom I thought I could trust, have been denied employment dozens of times simply because I was honest on the job applications and told the employers that I had epilepsy. I came very close to being fired from my job as a home health aide back in the 1980's and was told by my Cosmetology instructor that I was wasting my time studying to become a hairdresser and that I would never make it in the hectic world of hairdressing so long as I was having seizures.

What's New?

Here I might add an entry whenever I make an update to my web site. Where appropriate, I'll include a link to the change. For example:

11/1/01 - Added new photos to Vacation Album page.

Please contact me with any comments or reactions to my site. I can be contacted at JoanofArc1994@yahoo.com or LisaM11463@aol.com

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