Hannah Wallace was 16 years old when she had her first seizure. Sitting in the living room of her family’s home in Whitewater, Kansas, watching a movie with her dad, “I just remember hitting the floor and seeing the rocking-chair legs,” recalls Hannah, now 25. “And when I woke up, my dad was holding me, and my [step]mum was saying, ‘Michael, she’s not OK.’” Her parents rushed her to hospital, where doctors initially diagnosed her with epilepsy and put her on medication. Yet the seizures continued, at times almost weekly, and with them came odd lapses in Hannah’s memory. When she’d wake up from an episode, “I’d forget what day it was, the year,” she says. Sometimes the seizures were small, and it was just short-term memories she’d forget, like…
