seizures
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Before, She laid in a hospital bed
Now, she makes sure the dogs are fed.
Before, She was surrounded by nurses.
Now, she collects designer purses.
Her family used to hope and try
At the beginning of last year,
I was only fifteen.
At the beginning of last year,
I was spending most of my time in the hospital.
At the beginning of last year,
I was still having seizures.
Never would you have met such a violent twelve-year-oldnearly threatening to punch an orderly who told her,patronizingly, that her seizing father should wait in the roomfor there to be space. My mother chose that moment