Sara Peters: Waiting for a seizure
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2012
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
With her epilepsy medication failing, Sara Peters checks into a hospital with one goal: make the scariest thing in her life happen again.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | I felt like. |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well. |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. Hey everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:34.4 | This week's story is from Sarah Peters. The story was told in January 2012 at Under St. |
| 0:40.0 | Mark's Theatre in Manhattan as part of the Told Show, and a very special thanks to them for letting |
| 0:44.7 | us record it. That said, we didn't do a great job in the audio quality is a little off. Sorry about |
| 0:50.1 | that, but we did think the story was so great, you should hear it anyway. Here it is. |
| 0:59.1 | So I'm talking to a really cute guy, but it's a little nervous because I'm not really looking my |
| 1:07.3 | best. The cute guy is attaching 34 metal electrodes to my scalp, attaching |
| 1:14.1 | 34 skinny little wires to them. It's all wrapped up in cheesecloth, like big |
| 1:19.2 | long cheesecloth ponytail, plugged into the wall, and then my whole head is wrapped |
| 1:25.2 | in cheesecloth, which is taped to my face. |
| 1:28.1 | So I'm not really looking my best and kind of looking like an Android, kind of like a sock |
| 1:32.6 | monkey combo. |
| 1:35.5 | I am in the hospital for an EEG, an electroencephalogram. |
| 1:39.9 | And the purpose of the test is to monitor my brain waves and figure out why I have seizures. |
| 1:46.1 | And I'm an epileptic, so I've had a zillion EEGs in my life. |
| 1:50.3 | But this particular one is different because lately the medication has stopped working. |
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