Welcome to Team Emily 2025!
Please join us for our 12th year supporting the Epilepsy Foundation of San Diego for Sharon’s RideRunWalk on April 13, 2025. This year, I am doubling down on my efforts to raise awareness about Epilepsy and especially about the importance of learning Seizure First Aid. It takes only 30 minutes of your time to learn life saving measures and you can do it on-line! Here’s the on-demand link: https://learn.epilepsy.com/courses/SFA-Ready-OD-v2b.
I recently came across the phrase that ‘seizures are the punctuation and epilepsy is the narrative.’ What that means to me is that seizures are in fact, only one part of the epilepsy journey. Seizures can be scary and dangerous and physically exhausting and painful, and the aftermath of one can take months to recover from. My daughter had a particularly terrible seizure last year while at college and it disrupted her life in profound ways. She is still battling back from it over a year later…trying to get her physical and emotional self back from a very traumatic seizure. We continue to rely on the Epilepsy Foundation of San Diego for support and we are deeply grateful to them for the services they provide families like ours along every point of this challenging journey.
I am honored to do this work, for my daughter Emily who has been a courageous warrior for her health, as well as for those who need more support. I am in awe of the families, children and adults I have met along this journey and am inspired daily by their resilience, intelligence, talent, creativity, and self-awareness and I would be so honored if you could join us on April 13 at Crowne Point Mission Bay for the event.
Thank you all so much for your on-going support of Team Emily and the Epilepsy Foundation of San Diego!
Go Team Emily 2025!
Elizabeth, Mark, Alex and Emily Eshoo
More Info:
Sharon's Ride.Run.Walk San Diego is a 15-mile Bike Ride or 5K Run/Walk that is very important to me. I am raising money to help The Epilepsy Foundation of San Diego County so they can provide wraparound support services and programs at no cost to individuals and families affected by epilepsy. Please help me support this cause and spread awareness for epilepsy.
DID YOU KNOW?
- 1 in 10 people will have a seizure in their lifetime.
- 1 in 26 people will be diagnosed with epilepsy.
- 3.4 million people nationwide are affected by epilepsy.
- 50,000 San Diegans are living with epilepsy.
- Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder and affects people of all ages.
- Epilepsy means the same thing as "seizure disorders."
- Epilepsy is characterized by unpredictable seizures and can cause other health problems.
- Epilepsy is a spectrum condition with a wide range of seizure types and control varying from person-to-person.
- Public misunderstandings of epilepsy cause challenges that are often worse than the seizures.
