
Kelly Cervantes is an epilepsy, rare disease and grief speaker and advocate, as well as the author of "Normal Broken: The Grief Companion For When It's Time to Heal But You're Not Sure You Want To" and a memoir, "The Luckiest." She lives with her family in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Recently published

The bad news? I had breast cancer. The good news? Doctors knew what to do
Breast cancer research is exceptionally well funded. Other diseases, including epilepsy — which took my little girl’s life — are less so. With the Trump administration slashing research budgets and...

The choices we made for our family
Miguel and Kelly Cervantes have lost two children — one to a neurodegenerative condition at age 3, one in utero, at 21 weeks. I made the same heart-wrenching decision for...