VNS Therapy is a Game Changer

My daughter, Vivien, started having seizures at the age of two. My wife and I were crushed. Our sweet child didn’t deserve to have Epilepsy. No one deserves to have Epilepsy.

It took many years for doctors to figure out that she had suffered a fetal stroke. Her brain did not fully form and she was having partial focal seizures. Most of her seizures happened in her sleep or coming out of her sleep. She had horrible insomnia. She was staying awake 3 to 5 times a week, crashing every other day. …

Leonard Dykstra was born to play baseball. He grew up in Santa Ana, California, and attended Garden Grove High School. He was the only freshman to ever play on the varsity baseball team. He signed with the New York Mets in 1981 and was a star in the minor leagues. A teammate described him as a perfectly designed baseball player with no concept of failure. He was brought up to the major leagues in 1985 and played for the New York Mets. The fans nicknamed him “Nails” because he was fearless and never gave up. His friends called him Lenny. …

Lori Loughlin and her husband plead guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud due to the college admissions bribery scandal. To be more specific, charged with honest services mail fraud. (whatever the hell that means) She was sentenced to two months in prison, fined $150,000, and 100 hours of community service.

Lori Loughlin grew up in New York and began her career at the age of 11. She seemed to be everywhere in the 80s and 90s. She was in the greatest BMX movie ever, Rad.

She played Rebecca Donaldson on Full House. She was one of the most popular TV characters and was brought back in 2016 on Fuller House. Sadly, the network fired her from the show after the scandal emerged. …

The Lizard People of Los Angeles

Lizard People became popular with science fiction fans because they are humanoids with lizard heads. The conspiracy theorists claim that the Lizard people are shape-shifting reptilian aliens that control the world like in the movie, They Live.

In the 1930s, one man set out to find the Lizard People of Los Angeles. That man was George Warren Shufelt, a mining engineer, and geologist. He had invented the machine that he believed could detect underground tunnels. Shufelt was before his time seeing that Ground Penetrating Radar would not exist for another 60 years.

Shufelt had heard an old Hopi Indian legend that said there were hundreds of tunnels with chambers large enough for thousands of Lizard families. He believed The Lizard People might hold the key to the origin of humanity. Shufelt thought there was a race of brilliant human lizard beings forced underground to escape wildfires. It was an ancient civilization more than five thousand years old. …

If you ever get a chance to drive down Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, take a turn onto Sunset, and visit the Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine. As you wander along the beautiful lake, take note that this used to be Inceville.

Thomas H. Ince was born in Rhode Island in 1880. He made his Broadway debut at the age of 15. Ince later tried to form his own vaudeville company but failed. He met his actress wife, and together, they had three kids.

Ince found out that the New York Motion Picture Company had a studio called Bison Studios in Edenville, California, present-day Echo Park. Ince wanted to be a director. He accepted the job and moved his family out west. Ince was shocked to find Bison Studios were nothing more than a barn and a small house. He looked for a larger location and settled upon an 18,000-acre ranch in the Pacific Palisades he named Inceville. …

Frank William Dux was born in Canada in 1956. He moved with his family to California and attended Grant high school in Van Nuys. At the age of 16, he moved to Japan and trained with world-famous Master Tiger Tanaka, a descendent of 40 generations of ninjas.

Ninjas were mercenaries in old-world Japan who were skilled in espionage. Their tactics were seen as dishonorable to the Samurai but became popular in America during the 1980s.

Frank joined the United States Marines, served in Vietnam, and was awarded the Medal of Honor for covert operations.

After the war, Frank competed in a secret martial arts contest called the Kumite, a 60 round elimination tournament held every five years in the Bahamas. Frank won first place and was rewarded with a priceless ninja sword. He also broke the world record for the fastest knockout and the most consecutive knockouts. …

William George Bonelli was born in 1895 to a Swiss/English Pioneer family that moved to Los Angeles in 1912. Bill received a bachelor’s degree in arts from the University of Southern California and served in the US Army as a pilot. He received a master’s degree from Occidental College and a law degree from Southwestern.

He promoted the aircraft industry in the Santa Clarita Valley and purchased Hoot Gibson‘s rodeo in Saugus, California. The rodeo was renamed Bonelli Ranch Stadium and later became the Saugus speedway. During this time, Bill got married, and they had two sons.

Bill was 36 when elected to the Los Angeles city council. He went on to win a seat in the California State Assembly and was appointed to the Board of Equalization. …

She was born Marie Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867. She obtained a degree in physics in 1893 and began work in an industrial laboratory. She continued to study at the University of Paris and earned a second-degree by 1894. She met her husband Pierre and became Marie Curie. They both loved science and worked together in France.

With the discovery of x-rays, Marie decided to research uranium using her husband‘s electrometer. She discovered that uranium rays caused air to conduct electricity around it.

She discovered that thorium was also radioactive and that thorium gave off radioactive rays just like uranium. A German scientist published the research first, and she lost out on getting credit for it. …