Paul Arsenault knows, better than most, what it is like to live with a disability. Arsenault, 39, is not only the disability support staff for Operation Sharing – a faith-based organization supported by about 45 churches in Oxford County, Ontario, that provides a variety of programs for people in poverty – but he also has lived his entire life with cerebral palsy.
Born two months premature, Arsenault could not breathe on his own at birth and was given too much oxygen at that point. Cerebral palsy, a condition that affects muscle movements and posture, can be caused by too much or too little oxygen, Arsenault explained in a May 18 interview. He was also diagnosed with epilepsy at age seven, when he had his first grand mal seizure (a serious form of epilepsy). At that point “I had been told I wouldn’t be able to walk,” Arsenault said. But he proved that prediction wrong.
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“My seizures got increasingly worse as I got older, when I was a teenager I had at least one a day. I tried every medication they had but they didn’t work. I took them religiously,” to no avail, Arsenault said. Any physical exertion would trigger a seizure – stress or playing sports would bring on a seizure.
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