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This Christmas, the Herald is featuring 12 charities which have been chosen to get a $10,000 grant from Auckland Airport as part of its 12 Days of Christmas charity campaign. The $120,000 comes from generous travellers who donate money in globes throughout the airport.
When the next second of your life could bring on a crippling seizure, knowing you have someone there to help or save your life is more than comforting.
West Auckland resident Erica Tiedemann. in her 40s, is living with severe epilepsy - a disorder that only showed itself when she was a full-time student studying at university.
"I was absolutely fine, studying psychology ... and suddenly I began having seizures.