A politician in Ireland has shared his personal experience of living with epilepsy, encouraging others to embrace their dreams despite medical challenges.
I was getting slightly unusual episodes in my sleep for three to four months and that concluded with full tonic-clonic seizures during the day, he said. I went through the procedures of the MRI scan, brain scan and I was told eventually that I was an epileptic and had to go on daily medications. It was kind of a frightening experience as such, but there's lots of people that go through an experience like this.
I wanted to own this story myself, I’m an epileptic and encouraged that it doesn’t affect my job as a Public Rep! During the election campaign, the TD became ill in RTÉ's Cork studio moments before he was due to go on-air for a debate.It was this experience that prompted Deputy Kenny to be vocal about his epilepsy.There’s a lot of people that did resonate with the fact that they might have had epilepsy themselves or family members with epilepsy.Deputy Kenny said he wants his experience to remind the public that 'politicians are normal'.I want to get across to people with medical conditions can go and seek out their dreams whethe
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