Epilepsy Advocate Launched Awareness and Support Efforts That Make a Difference


By Robin F. DeMattia


Danny Rosenfeld doesn’t let his epilepsy define him. Instead, he chooses to serve as an advocate for other patients.


Danny was diagnosed at age 11 aſter


having the second seizure of his life. The first occurred when he was just 45 days old.


Aſter going on medication, he had


only one seizure every 18 to 24 months aſter that, graduating from high school and college. But by age 24, he was hav- ing six to 12 seizures a week. Then he


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had a car accident. “That changed my life,” he shares. “It made


me want to do what I’m doing today, to help out other people with epilepsy.”


Danny spent six years volunteering with the Epilepsy Foundation of Southwest


Florida before being hired as a development intern. Danny, along with his mother and stepfather, Lizzie and Burt Golumbic, founded the annual Southwest Florida Epilepsy Walk the Talk for Epilepsy Awareness fund- raiser, as well as the first Southwest Florida Epilepsy Educational Support Group. Since the first walk in 2010, their efforts have raised more than $250,000 to help


local people affected by epilepsy. The money supports educational programs pre- sented by the support group and helps fund local children with epilepsy who want to atend Camp Boggy Creek.


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