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By Don Markus | March 11, 2008
Grace Rolle remembers the crash and the silence that followed. "You've heard of a mother's intuition?" she asked recently. "I heard a loud noise, and it sounded like somebody fell. After about two minutes, I thought that it didn't sound right. When I went downstairs to the garage, the papers were strewn everywhere." Then she saw her son, Samari, on the ground, conscious but dazed. "His lip was busted, his tongue was messed up and his neck was swollen," she said. "They have sharp, concrete stairs.
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By Jamison Hensley | November 22, 2007
For eight weeks, Samari Rolle kept his condition a secret. "I didn't know if I could play, if I would be all right or anything," the Ravens veteran cornerback said. "It was very scary." But yesterday Rolle disclosed that he has epilepsy, a neurological condition that affects the nervous system and can cause seizures. He decided to publicly talk about his epilepsy "because it's under control now. Right now, I'm not scared." He has had three seizures this season, which have kept him out of six games.
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By Eileen AMbrose | November 7, 2006
Bonnie has a dream for her three daughters. The problem is paying for it. One daughter is a sophomore at a four-year state university. Another is a freshman at a community college. And the third is a senior in high school. But the single parent from Reisterstown says she's not just dealing with school costs. One daughter has epilepsy and the other two have learning disabilities. Medical bills eat up a big chunk of Bonnie's $70,000 annual income. And that's not factored in when it comes to financial aid, she says.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | January 12, 2005
Alison Marie Hylan, whose struggle with epilepsy and determination to have a normal life became an inspiration to others, died Sunday at Drexel University in Philadelphia after a seizure. She was 18. Miss Hylan, a freshman screenwriting student, was born in Annapolis. She was raised in Pasadena and Arnold, where she moved with her family in 2000. "She started writing as a child, and when she was older she'd enter poetry contests and get her things published," said her mother, Jan E. Hylan, a second-grade teacher at Richard Henry Lee Elementary School in Glen Burnie.
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By Judy Foreman | December 22, 2003
Chelsea Henrie first knew something was wrong when, at age 16, she poured cereal into her shoe. "I also stuck my hand in the toaster once," recalls Henrie, now 20 and a student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. "That was the worst thing that happened." Like 2.8 million other Americans, Chelsea Henrie has epilepsy, a disorder characterized by seizures, or sudden electrical storms, in the brain. Though rarely fatal unless a seizure is severe and prolonged, or occurs while a person is swimming or driving, epilepsy can be a life-wrecker.
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August 22, 2003
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, SIDNEY GUMENICK. Loving brother of Eugene Gumenick, Michael Gumenick and Jacki Gimbel, devoted brother-in-law of Christine Bass and David Gimbel. Beloved uncle of Brian Gumenick, Matthew Gumenick, Jeffrey and Kelly Lasov, Daniel Gumenick and Jessica Gumenick. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Friday, August 22 11A.M. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, MD. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be directed to The Epilepsy Association of Maryland, 5438 York Rd. (21212)
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August 22, 2003
On August 19, 2003 ROBERT LEE WILLOUGHBY, JR., beloved son of Robert L. Willoughby, Sr. and the late Blanche E. Goldsmith; and dear brother of Christopher, Nicole and Samantha Willoughby and Theresa Walden. A funeral service will be held at the family owned Evans Chapel of Memories-Parkville on Saturday 11 A.M. Visiting Friday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers Robert's family would be grateful if a contribution was made in his name to the Epilepsy Association of Maryland, 300 East Joppa Road, Suite 1103, Towson, MD 21286-3018.
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October 22, 2001
A 43-year-old Severn man died yesterday after being found on the side of a road in Glen Burnie, unconscious and pinned beneath his Honda motor scooter, according to county police. David Allan Hentschel of the 7700 block of Twin Oaks Road was pronounced dead at North Arundel Hospital after being found in a small embankment off Grover Road near New Cut Road about 1:40 a.m., police said. Police said that Hentschel had suffered no obvious physical injury. The scooter also was undamaged. His body was taken to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy.
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By Christine Morris | October 7, 2001
It was the middle of the night when Constance Hoyt awakened to find her husband, John, making anguished sounds while his arms and legs jerked around. The couple was living in Asuncion, Paraguay, where they worked in a Christian academy, and Constance Hoyt was sure she was losing her husband. Hours later, at a hospital, doctors concluded he had suffered a heart attack. A pacemaker was implanted. It was not until months later, after two more such episodes, that the Hoyts were referred to Dr. R. Eugene Ramsay at the University of Miami and learned that Hoyt, a retired pastor, had epilepsy.
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By Gary Cohn | December 27, 2000
Alan Garfinkle, a lawyer whose zest for life lifted the spirits of his friends and relatives and who was active in charitable causes, died of a heart attack Saturday while visiting family in Nashville, Tenn. He was 58 and lived in the Guilford neighborhood of Baltimore. "He was a super human being - my hero," said his wife of 28 years, the former Loretta Portera. "He was generous and giving. He was my soul mate." Mr. Garfinkle was born and raised in Nashville. He earned his law degree from Mount Vernon law school, which later merged with the University of Baltimore law school.