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SCHICKSALE - Genesung: Epileptikerin malt Kühe und ist seitdem anfallsfrei
Lauren Terry (TOMCo. Media / PA Real Life) *** Actress whose life was ruled by epilepsy swaps her
fast-paced routine for running her own cow portrait
business and has been seizure-free for two years
By Laura Withers, PA Real Life
A trained actress whose life was blighted by terrifying epileptic seizures believes that
leaving the stage to paint portraits of cows has "cured" her of the stress triggers that led
to her elliptic episodes.
Seizure-free for two years, Lauren Terry 31, of York, stumbled on her unusual "treatment"
back in 2011 when, a self-taught artist, she copied a picture of a cow from a greetings
card and gave it to her dad, Justin, 64, a retired tailor.
So impressed by her efforts that he had it framed, when the shop owner suggested it was
good enough to exhibit, Lauren rose to the challenge - holding her first exhibition in
Wykeham, North Yorkshire, in 2012.
I had 18 cow portraits and at my first exhibition I sold six, which I was chuffed with, she
said. They were sold for up to £450 each, which was a decent amount of money.
Then, using £5,000 from her savings and with £1,000 invested by her mum, Jude, 63, now
her business partner, she launched her new artistic venture.
A side project until 2016, when she and her husband, James, 31, an area sales manager with whom she is expecting her first child in May - moved from London to Yorkshire, and
she ditched acting to paint cows full-time, Lauren soon began to reap extraordinary health
benefits.
For her life had been blighted by epilepsy - a condition affecting the brain and causing
seizures - since she was 10 years old.
First experiencing absence seizures, causing lapses in awareness, she would briefly lose
consciousness.
It felt like Id gone into a deep daydream or into some sort of trance, she
explained. Sometimes Id completely zone out and my teacher would assume I wasnt
paying attention.
Or, Id just stop in the middle of crossing a road and my parents would be yelling,
Laur
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