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National Seizure Disorders Foundation invited Jennifer Schnegg here today to share her story in order to help you understand the life of a person living with seizures. Maybe you know someone urmet interphone living with seizures. Remember, everyone travels a different path. So read on as we share the story of Jennifer s Joy.
Meet Jennifer Schnegg, a young woman wanting what is best for her in life. At a young age her dr eams of the future, her Joy, took a drastic change. She began experiencing seizures. As with most s eizure survivors, her journey with seizures had its high points and low points. Recently, Jennifer s journey took an especially troubling path. Suddenly she experienced what experts term atonic seizures. For the layman reader, an atonic seizure is otherwise known as a drop seizure and the name embodies urmet interphone the description. The person experiencing an atonic seizure suddenly loses all control over all muscle tone. There is no convulsing or rigidity. Exactly opposite, all muscles lose tone and the person experiencing this type of seizure drops . This type of seizure although not fatal on it s own has resulted in broken bones, bumps, and bruises. A widely used therapy for protection of the head during atonic seizures is a helmet. Jennifer uses her helmet because her atonic seizures are unpredictable.
Recently, because Jennifer experiences these seizures several times a week, Jennifer s doctor prescribed a trained seizure service/alert urmet interphone dog in order to alert to oncoming seizure of any type and help her through any seizure experienced. A special task seizure service dogs learn for those experiencing atonic seizures are to brace against a sudden fall of human weight. Remember, the seizure survivor during an atonic seizure has no muscle tone so the body weight is in some instances doubled because there is no help from the muscles to brace against a fall. These special seizure service dogs are also taught to brace in order to help a disoriented seizure survivor back to their feet. These tasks prevent bodily harm and aid in recovery because the presence of the dog distressed urmet interphone a confused seizure survivor during postictal phase immediately after seizure fades. So, which of these fine furries will be Jennifer’s Joy? Let us know in the comments which one YOU believe she should have once trained.
Do you know Jennifer? Do you know someone living with this type of seizures? Take a moment and consider if Jennifer were your daughter. You would be willing to do anything within urmet interphone reason to help her live a higher quality of daily life while keeping her safe, right? Of course you would! National Seizure Disorders Foundation makes it easy today to become a part of Jennifer s Joy. It only takes a minute to click this donate button and give to Jennifer s Joy. Every dollar given will go to the training and upkeep of her seizure service dog it training. So, go ahead and donate now
Are you ready to increase Jennifer s Joy? Do so in a BIG way today! Donate 100.00 or more by sending check or money order to NSDF 228 College Street urmet interphone Burns TN 37029 NOTE: Jennifer s Joy or JJ NSDF asks for donations of 100.00 or more to be gifted through check or money order to avoid PayPal fees. NSDF believes Jennifer s Joy deserves every penny possible.
UPDATE: Jennifer’s Joy has been increased on Dec 20,2013 UGOODDOG , NSDF, and Jennifer urmet interphone decided on a seizure service dog in Training for Jennifer. NSDF proudly announces, Gabriella ( Gabby My Love), German Shepard Seizure Service Dog in Training to be place with Jennifer after training is complete. We need your continued financial support in order to complete Gabriella’s training to serve Jennifer. Use the giving methods and instructions we have given in this post and continue to be part of Jennifer’s Joy.
If you have questions regarding Jennifer s Joy or want updates, please leave a comment below. NSDF believes in truth and transparency. Our reason for bringing this request to you today is so you can be a big part of increasing Joy and a higher quality of daily living in a young woman s life.
We all wish you the best of luck not only in your fundraising efforts but with Gabby. Get your community involved in fundraising by typing up flyers (MS Word has great templates) and asking local churches, businesses to place them; you can even place them in mailboxes around your neighborhood.
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