Jim Blowitski, 41, started having uncontrollable  grand mal seizures in 2012. Doctors could not find a root cause, so they put him in a coma. The root cause turned out to be viral encephalitis, a viral infection of the brain. This unknown virus resulted in refractory (drug-resistant) epilepsy and anterograde and retrograde amnesia – the difficulty remembering and forming new memories. 

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This is his story about how he lives with, and thrives despite, these circumstances.