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Hi! My name is MacKenzie and I am 6-1/2-years-old (my birthday is in March!). I live in Lansing, Michigan with my mom,
step-dad and my two sisters, Sarah and Jadyn. I am the middle child. I am in 1st grade now! I really enjoy cheerleading,
riding my bike, and playing outside.
I was born in Monroe, Louisiana and lived there until I was just over 2-years-old when me, my mom and my sister Sarah moved
to Georgia. We lived there for a little over a year and then we moved to Michigan!
When I was 5 years and 4 months old, I had my first seizure when I was visiting my dad in Jackson, Michigan. I spent
1-1/2 days in the hospital where they ran lots of tests on me. They didn't find anything significant (that's what my mom says).
Then in October, I bumped my head while playing in McDonald's playplace and got a concussion. After my mom and Scott (he's
my step-dad) took me to the emergency room, they did a CT scan and found a lesion on my brain. I had to have an MRI done 2
weeks later and they confirmed the spot in my brain.Thankfully, it was nothing life-threatening, but they didn't know what
it was.
My new baby sister, Jadyn, was born on 12/9/00 and I had my second grand mal seizure in the hall of the hospital
when she was just 3-1/2 hours old. I had my 3rd seizure on 12/12/00 at home. That was when the doctor put me on Tegretol.
I took it 3 times a day, and I didn't think it tastes very good!
I had my 4th seizure on 1/16/01 and quit breathing.
Scott had to help me start breathing again. The doctor decided to make my medicine stronger. I had to go have an EEG done
on 2/1/00 to see if they can find anything in my brain!
Since then, my mom and Scott have been able to determine that
I am also having absence seizures. Sometimes, I just black-out and fall (usually resulting in me hitting my head which scares
my mom!), but sometimes things will go all black and fuzzy around me and I see and feel funny things. The doctor told my mom
the other day that the medicine won't help those kinds of seizures! That didn't make her too happy.
I drew a picture
of what it looks like when I have absence seizures:
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Favorites
Here's a list of some of my favorite movies: Madeline, Matilda, Mary Poppins, and the Veggie Tales!
Here's a list of some of my other favorites:
Book: All of them! Some are Madeline (the entire collection), Olivia,
Eloise, Angelina Ballerina and Squids will be Squids!
Food: Pizza
Color: pink
Game: Pretty Pretty
Princess
Animal: Horses
Place to eat out: Caesar Land and Wendy's
Favorite Toy: Angelina Ballerina
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