Our Story
Inspired by Sophia Seeger, who has lived with epilepsy since the age of 4 and found hope at the doorstep of her hospital room from a therapy dog.
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Sophia is a 19-year-old epilepsy advocate, author, public speaker, and the president of Milo&Me.
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When Sophia was just two and a half, her family's world was shaken upside down by epilepsy. After multiple EEGS, doctor appointments, and more, it was confirmed that Sophia had absence seizures. A few years later, after one of her hospital visits, a therapy dog visited her door. At that exact moment, everything she felt like she was going through melted away. That day, the Seeger family ensured that when they got a dog, it would become a therapy dog.
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2 years later, Milo joined the family! Milo is a registered therapy dog through Pet Partners and, since then, has been changing people's lives. Milo is a 9-year-old Doberman Pinscher who enjoys chasing squirrels, sleeping, working with his kiddos at therapy, stealing popcorn, ruining Mrs. Seegers garden & is very interested in his new little brother- Chuck... the BIRD (@thatbirdchuck).
Even with the companionship Sophia shared with Milo & everyone else around her, she still felt alone. She was silently struggling and felt like no one else could understand her. After lots of thinking & reflecting, she decided enough was enough and did something that would forever change her life.
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During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Sophia started an Instagram account called Milo&Me. It was a way to document her journey with epilepsy. She covered statistics, her EEGs, how difficult it was to cope with not driving at 16, and her aspirations for living with epilepsy. It turns out that lots of people liked the words she was writing and the experiences she shared. Slowly but surely the followers started growing over the months.
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A few years later, and with lots of redrafts in October of 2023, Milo&Me became a
501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization. Milo&Me evolved into a virtual support group for teen girls (16-20) living in East & Central time zones, to connect once a month, started the care package program, where you can nominate a friend with epilepsy to be eligible for a care package and lastly, our team realized the importance of educating our youth about the importance of epilepsy awareness. Milo&Me has started hosting community events and fundraisers to raise epilepsy awareness.
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Epilepsy is complex to live with, but Sophia will confidently tell you some of the best things she's experienced have been because of her epilepsy. In November 2022, Sophia was the featured speaker for the Epilepsy Foundation of CT. She shared her story in front of 300 people. She was also nominated through the National Epilepsy Foundation to participate in their "Teens Speak Up!" program, where 50 other epileptic teens were flown out throughout the states to Washington D.C., where Sophia spoke to lawmakers about making CT a seizure-safe state, published her first children's book about epilepsy & becoming a president of a non-profit at 18 is her proudest accomplishment.
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All because a therapy dog entered her door.