Anchor at News 5 Cleveland
Sara Staggs practiced civil rights litigation before she was forced to give up her career due to epilepsy. In 2017, she received life-changing surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.
“I'm doing so much better. The brain surgery that I had at the Cleveland Clinic was a laser ablation,” Staggs said. “It's a relatively new surgery where they can just, instead of opening up your skull, taking out a larger part of your brain, they can find where the pacemaker is, and then they just take a laser, and they can just ablate that really small part. So, it has a lot of benefits in that it leaves cognitive function intact. It's quite, quite high tech.
Staggs said, “About 3.4 million people in the US have epilepsy. It's the fourth most common neurological condition in the U.S. One in 26 people in their lifetime will develop it. It's very, very common, and people don't talk about it a lot because I think there's still a big stigma around it that we're working on.”
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