EMMERY ROSE
August 27, 2009 - December 9, 2018 (Grandchild of a Chapter EZ, Marian Bass)

Emmery Rose Hermie, age 9, became an angel on Sunday, December 9, 2018. A granddaughter of our Chapter EZ sister, Marian Bass. She was the light of our lives, the first child and grandbaby to bless our family. She was full of love and light and joy.

She had a five-year plan for how she was going to become an actress, and she also wanted to be a manager at Target and the President. She wanted to have three kids someday. And she could have done it all.

She was so smart and kind and thoughtful and talented and the best big sister to Abigail and Finley. She was her mom’s right hand, always helping, and her dad was going to teach her how to play basketball. She spent her own money on Christmas presents for everyone, and they are wrapped under the tree.

She had the purest heart. She was a Girl Scout and loved doing community service; she helped plant a garden and sang Christmas carols at Fountain View Village. She was incredibly talented and artistic—she was a member of the Fashion Club and Yearbook Club at Fountain Hills Middle School. She was so creative, always drawing or making robots out of recycled materials around the house.

Emmery was an outstanding student and was on the Honor Roll her first semester in fourth grade. She especially loved science and was a star at Camp Invention, a week-long summer workshop of handson STEM activities.

Her last day on earth was filled with everything she loved to do…singing, community service, riding her bike, having a picnic in the front yard, spending time with her friends, and watching her favorite movie, “The Greatest Showman.”

One of the brightest lights ever to grace this world has gone out, but we know she is taking charge up in Heaven watching over all of us. We love you our dear sweet Emmery Rose to the moon and back.

She is survived by her loving parents, Bruce and Katie Hermie, her little sisters, Abigail, 6 and Finley, 4, and her aunts, Camille Bass and Kimberley Bass, and her grandparents Greg and Marian Hermie, and Marian Bass.

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EPILEPSY FACT SHEET

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FACTS ABOUT SEIZURES AND EPILEPSY

You can’t swallow your tongue during a seizure. It’s physically impossible.

Never force something into the month of a person having a seizure. It could chip their teeth, cut their gums, or even break their jaw. The correct first aid is simple. Just gently roll the person on one side, support their head, protect them from injury, and make sure their breathing is okay.

Don’t restrain someone having a seizure. Most seizures will end on their own in a few seconds or minutes. Learn these simple first aid guidelines to use when a person is having a seizure.

Epilepsy is not contagious. You cannot catch it from or give it to another person.

Anyone can develop epilepsy. Seizures start for the first time in older adults almost as often as in children. For older people, seizures often happen because of other health problems, like stroke or heart disease.

Most people with epilepsy can do the same things as people without epilepsy. However, some people with frequent seizures may not be able to work or drive. Or they may have problems with memory, thinking, mood, or coordination that could affect school, work or other parts of life.

People with epilepsy can handle jobs with responsibility and stress. They may work in business, government, the arts, and all sorts of professions. If stress makes their seizures worse, they may need to learn ways to manage stress at work. But everyone needs to learn how to cope with stress! There are some jobs that people with epilepsy can’t do because of possible safety problems, like driving a school bus. Otherwise, having epilepsy shouldn’t limit the type of job that a person has.

Epilepsy cannot be cured. It is a chronic medical problem. For many people, medicines work to treat their epilepsy, but treatment doesn’t work for everyone. More than 1 million people in the United States have uncontrolled epilepsy. There is still an urgent need for more research to find better treatments and a cure.

Epilepsy is not rare. Epilepsy is more than twice as common the U.S. as cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, and cystic fibrosis combined. Epilepsy can happen by itself, or with other conditions that affect the brain, like cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorders, Alzheimer’s, and traumatic brain injury.

You can die from epilepsy. While death in epilepsy is not common, epilepsy is a very serious condition and people do die from seizures sometimes.

The most common cause of death is SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy). While there is much that we still don’t know about SUDEP, about 1 in 1,000 people with epilepsy die from SUDEP each year. Learn more about SUDEP and the risks of death in epilepsy.

People can also die from prolonged seizures (called “status epilepticus”) These seizure emergencies cause 22,000 to 42,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.

Each person’s seizures are different. But seizures are usually stereotypic, which means that for each seizure type a person has, the same things tend to happen each time. What a person does during a seizure may be inappropriate for the time and place.   Seizures are not likely to hurt on lookers. Learn more about what happens during a seizure. 

People with epilepsy are usually not physically limited. During and after a seizure, a person may have trouble moving or doing their usual activities. Some people with epilepsy may have trouble with physical abilities because of other problems in their brain or nervous system. Otherwise, a person usually doesn’t have any physical limitations when they are not having a seizure.
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THE MISSION OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION IS TO LEAD THE FIGHT TO OVERCOME THE CHALLENGES OF LIVING WITH EPILEPSY AND TO ACCELERATE THERAPIES TO STOP SEIZURES, FIND CURES, AND SAVE LIVES.