Please See Your Doctor,Epilepsy is Curable

Mary, a woman in her 40s, narrates her story. “When I resumed at the media house where I was posted to do my primary assignment as a 22-year-old youth corps member, it was the best thing that could happen to me, what with the monthly extra allowance I got. It was approximately 95 per cent of the stipend the Federal Government was paying corps members then. So, life was good.

“My fiancé only knew what I told him about myself, as I withheld the most vital information about my health, fearing that it could make him change his mind if he knew that I was epileptic.