Julie Dennison - Living with Epilepsy

Harry: Thank you for your fantastic visit . . . I liked the video but I preferred you talking about your life . . .

Alex: I'm still having hysterics over that Rolf Harris video . . . Before you came in I didn't even know that epilepsy was a word, I even learned that one of my classmates has epilepsy.

Bodan: Now I know about most of the seizures and what I should do when someone has a tonic clonic drop.

Adam: Please come again and I promise you will have a lot of questions.

Conor: I remember when you said there were 40,000,000 people who have epilepsy round the world.

Corey: I liked the video from Rolf Harris. It was a little bit funny, but you were funnier when you came in dressed a as a witch.

Nguya: I wish you have stayed for a longer time.

Lacey: It made me feel very happy when you said that children were more relaxed and helpful when someone was having a fit, than what adults were.

Karl: I loved hearing about your life and when you had a lot of children helping you.

Liam: I liked your book it was very interesting.

Samuel: I learnt about if something goes wrong you should always stay calm if you're with someone who has epilepsy.

Amy: It made me think how I could help someone who was epileptic.

Ben: Do epileptic people close their eyes whe they have a fit?

Rebecca: When you first walked into our class dressed as a witch, my friends and I thought it was funny but scary.

Dave: When you had babies, you had to feed them in their prams . . . so if you had a fit your baby wouldn't get hurt.

Sam: I have heard a lot about suffering with epilepsy and now I understand it more. . . . It inspired me to hear about your job interviews.

Aaron: You were really fun.

Rebekah: You inspire me with how you can fly in a hot air balloon, fly around London in a helicopter and go to Egypt to see the Pyramids.

Thomas: My Mum's got epilepsy, too. She has to take tablets every night.

Ryan: You told me what people years ago thought of people who had epilepsy.

Ryan: The main things I learnt . . . were that you had the same dreams as anyone else and that you could achieve the same as anyone else.

Jack: I am not used to visitors who come in dressed as witches. . . I was absolutely shocked when you tod us about having 40 to 50 seizures a day.

Claudia: I loved the story about . . . how you cooked . . . The pan went on the back stove so if you had a seizure you would not spill hot water over yourself.

Robyn: I could not stand it if I had epilepsy, I would go bonkers.

Anon: I enjoyed the amusing story about the many children who looked after you.

Pedro: The whole year 5 are thankful for you coming in. . . . I realised that when the video was going you had two [petit mal] seizures.

Ellis: You kept me interested when you dressed up as a witch.

Charlotte: When you said how many people had epilepsy I was speechless.

. . . and from their teacher: "We all learnt so much from your informative and interesting talk."