Keelyn (Hubbard) Carlson, a 2009 Mitchell High School graduate who’s now a kindergarten teacher in Scottsbluff, battled lots of adversity growing up as she had frequent, epileptic seizures from her grade school years through high school. She always tried to remain positive, though, through that journey, even though she didn’t know if the seizures would ever go away. Fortunately, after having six brain surgeries, Keelyn’s seizures finally went away her senior year in high school, and since then she’s gone on to enjoy the type of career and family life that at one point she didn’t know if she could have because of her seizures.
JEFF FIELDER Editor
SCOTTSBLUFF – Keelyn (Hubbard) Carlson remembers getting ready for school one day her fourth-grade year at Mitchell Elementary School when suddenly her world went dark.
She collapsed to the ground and her body began shaking uncontrollably right next to her mother, Lanna Hubbard, who had been fixing Keelyn’s hair.
It was the first time Keelyn had ever had a seizure, and it was a full-body one, referred to many as a “grand mal.” Keelyn was unconscious during the seizure.
“When I woke up, I remember seeing my mom, my dad, and my siblings surrounding me,” she said. “It was kind of scary.”
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