What is Purple Day you ask???
March 26th is the annual global awareness day for epilepsy. The day was founded in 2008 by a nine-year-old girl named Cassidy Megan from Nova Scotia. Motivated by her own struggles with the disease, she started Purple Day for Epilepsy in an effort to educate others about the disorder, and to remind those living with seizures that they are not alone. Cassidy named the day after the internationally recognized colour for epilepsy – lavender. As a result, on March 26, people around the world wear purple in support of the disease – which affects nearly 300,000 people in Canada and more than 50 million people across the globe.
That's way too many people suffering with seizures if you ask me. Taylor has hundreds of the nasty little buggers every single day. We don't like it, but we live with it, and we've gotten stronger as a family because of it.
So we took Purple Day by storm in our house! We all wore purple. Purple plastic tablecloth over the island. Purple balloons. Purple cake. Purple cookies. Even hung purple paper chains that Marissa and Daddy made together. It's fun being purple, and we just so happen to think it's Taylor's colour.
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