Benefit for Sarah Eubank to raise the funds to purchase a Seizure Alert Dog!
Sarah is a 16 yr old teenager from Magnolia, Texas who attends Magnolia West High School. She has battled the seizures and the stigma that comes with epilepsy since being diagnosed at six years old. In 2003, she had an innovative brain surgery to remove some of the scarring on her right temporal lobe however it did not stop the seizures. For the last several years Sarah has been combating them with seizure medications that do help slow down her seizure activity, but unfortunately give her many side effects like tremors and memory loss.
A person with epilepsy soon learns that their independence is taken away from them with the diagnosis. Sarah always needs someone to accompany her, someone who is trained on how to react to her seizures. She can’t go shopping at the mall with friends, she can’t go to sleep over’s or movies without someone accompanying her. She can’t go to dances for the fear that the strobe lights will cause a seizure. She cannot attend a high school football game, what if she had a seizure in the stands, fell down and injured herself? She can never swim alone for fear of drowning due to her disease; she can't even enjoy a long hot bubble bath without having someone sit with her. The threat of being physically hurt is not the only fear, what if she had a seizure and became disoriented? All of these things keep her from being independent. She is unable to do the things that an average teenage girl wants to do and although she accepts this fact without complaint, she does deserve a chance at a “normal” life. A seizure dog would give her that chance.
Now why a seizure alert dog? This safety companion would always be with her, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Because it is a licensed seizure alert/response trained dog it is permitted into schools, churches, movies, malls, etc. so she will have the freedom to live life and go anywhere and everywhere with this dog. He is trained to respond and assist Sarah should a seizure occur and herd her to a safer sitting or laying down position. Simply put this seizure alert dog can save her life. I would also like for you to take into account that in some cases persons who are accompanied by a seizure dog during their daily routine have a lessoned anxiety about having a seizure and therefore actually have less seizures.
To donate online: www.seizuredog4sarah.blogspot.com or contact at seizuredog4sarah@yahoo.com or deposits can be made to Regions Bank for the "benefit of Sarah Eubank".
Please help us in raising the funds for the purchase of a seizure alert dog for her so that she can do the everyday things that we take for granted!
Where: Ray's (under the Pavilion), 45550 FM 1774 (three miles from FM 1488), Plantersville, Texas
When: September 18, 2010 Please join us in a Bike Run, Benefit Auction and festivities.
Bike Run: first bike out at 9:00 a.m., last bike in at 3:00 p.m. Benefit festivities start at 1:00 p.m.
