User:Lee Rzepkowski

My name is now Lee Biddle, I am 40 years of age and live in the West Midlands. My true home is Birmingham where I lived until the age of fifteen. While living at the Scott Arms of Great Barr I had so much fun with my mates going around places such as Red House Park. Suddenly at the age of six I also started to enjoy sports like football. That’s when I began supporting Albion at the Hawthorns of West Bromwich.

On reaching fifteen in 1986, on I moved to live in Stafford. Here I started to study my BTEC National Diploma at Stafford College in 1988. But, suddenly after passing my first exam I went on doing the two year diploma. Unfortunately that was when my life was to change forever because out of the blue I collapsed jerking all over the floor. After this experience I was to finally end up being studied at Aston University and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. Where suddenly it was confirmed between the ages of fifteen to eighteen. That I was experiencing night-time and daytime Grand Mal epileptic seizures.

After that I was too loose my place at Stafford College due to the severity of the Grand-Mal epileptic seizures. Plus, also the uneducated tutors in and around the college about this neurological condition.

So, on I went to work at an industrial factory in Walsall also of the West Midlands. Where, I helped hard for ten years with some quite shocking experiences. This could be collapsing on numerous occasions into the floor and tables. But I would constantly carry on every day. Around all of this there were many exciting and really big achievements along the way. One was to go along seeing the World Cup of Italy in 1990. I saw four games in Milan plus Bologna then Genoa and finally Naples. But again around this were some horrifying moments to come. Because in 1991 after undergoing major EEG tests in hospital. I underwent major left temporal lobe brain surgery at Denmark Hill in the Maudsley hospital of London. From that there was very little success so on I went with confidence to beat epilepsy.

After that there were the most amazing things and dreams of my life to come. This was when I made my first visit to the United States of America. Eventually I saw twenty states of the country I love. Plus also meeting Senator Edward Moore Kennedy in a Health care Reform meeting at Washington D.C. Other American states I have visited are places such as New York plus California and others like Florida. After finishing my industrial job I went on to do photography at West Bromwich Albion for two seasons. Here I had the honour of meeting Sir Bobby Robson and Kevin Keegan. But after returning from Hawaii in 2001 enjoyment again as I ended up in Kings College hospital. Again after now having found out that the reason I had epilepsy was due to a left temporal lobe brain tumour. Well, I had to again undergo brain surgery there was a big risk to my memory. So, I was the seventeenth person to undergo brain surgery awake. There was a lot more success because the tickling tingling aura’s that I had suffered were finally to go. Also the severity of the epilepsy was reduced. Eventually away from the surgery and living back in Stafford I would carry on life with much fun. Visiting New York’s Time Square for New Years Eve and having fun.

Well, in 2003, after returning from Vancouver of Canada I was to meet somebody I would start to enjoy life with. A polish lady named Magdalena where after regularly meeting we would start living at my flat in Stafford together. In and around this we would have much fun together regularly visiting her family in Glavitza of Poland. We all visited lovely places such as Krakow. But also areas such as Auschwitz where many polish and Jewish people had suffered to Germany. Well, in and around the fun of Poland and England unbelievably I had to go into Kings College hospital again. Crazy, because it was for major brain surgery!! By now I was thinking will I ever be able to stop coming to this hospital it feels like my second home. Well, there was a lot of success from the surgery even though I was to undergo the surgery awake. This time the epilepsy was really reduced in strength.

Now even though I had to stay in hospital for my birthday on the 27th April 2007. I came home a few days later feeling a lot better. Then it was real excitement because Magda and I were to move into our own house in the May of 2007. Well, on Saturday 16th August 2008, Magda and me got married in Stafford. All of our family came along and we had a lot of fun. Well, not only was this to happen but in November of 2008. Somebody arrived into my family, his name was Frank. A little Chihuahua who is the most fantastic chap anybody could wish to have. Well, to finish this part of my very large story. My health is in the situation where I never suffer the tickling and tingling auras anymore. The epileptic seizures are very well controlled even though not fully. Because if going into an epileptic seizure I am now able to tell a person just as it is about to start. Then while my left and right hand jerk I sit down and just relax until the seizure stops. This is now quite unbelievable as at the age of seventeen I would be collapsing on numerous occasions around ten times daily. Now I am a very happily married man with so many achievements. This of which makes me a very happy person. I do not think about the epilepsy. Basically, I am thinking about the Albion of who I have supported since the age of six and all of my visits to America and Canada. Along with my wife Magda and little Chihuahua dog named Frank. I think we all forget in life that everybody has different experiences. Some good times others unfortunately bad but with confidence and determination. It is amazing what you can see do and achieve around the world. I have now written a book called: The Magic Bullet!! by Lee Rzepkowski. At the same time I am trying to sell the book myself. Get A Copy It Is Great!!! I hope you have enjoyed my little story, Lee Biddle.