Eden wakes up in a hospital room, bleary-eyed and confused.

She had been struck by lightning, a doctor explains, and her brain had been altered. “You’ve had three seizures since you’ve been here,” the doctor says.

Eden is diagnosed with epilepsy.

She falls into the arms of her brother and cries. “I’m so scared,” she says.

At one time, so was the creator of Eden, who is the protagonist of a new graphic novel, “Epilectra.” Denver-based author Sue Seserman was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2013.

“Of course” she was scared. “Epilepsy is a big word,” Seserman says.

“But I’ve since gotten past that, and I have found it empowering. And I think one of the things that’s very important, and what I’m trying to accomplish with ‘Epilectra,’ is for people not to be scared of these words, and for people to be willing to talk. Because ‘Epilectra’ has two big missions: disability empowerment and stigma elimination.”

Eden, 28, lives with uncertainty; a seizure one night keeps her from her job as a school teacher the next morning. But she soon returns to the work she loves. Speaking of love, she might have an interest in a man she meets. She keeps up with friends and family, including her brother, who has become a sidekick with the discovery of Eden’s newfound ability.

Eden becomes Epilectra, converting her brain’s abnormal electrical activity to her fingertips. She is the first member of a superhero team called SEEZ — short for “support and empower everyone zealously” and also a play on “seizure.”

“SEEZ” was the name of an informational, supportive newsletter Seserman would pass out as a volunteer in epilepsy monitoring units around Denver hospitals.

She’d gotten her seizures under control through medication, giving her confidence to go out on her own. Patients seemed amazed.

“Almost all of them were telling me they were afraid to go out in public because of their seizures,” Seserman says. “They’d given up on their educations, they’d given up on their careers, their relationships. They’d given up on their independence because of epilepsy.”

While she could not see those patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, Seserman kept thinking about them. “I wanted to do something to change their frame of mind,” she says.

How about a comic? her daughter suggested.

Epilectra was born, thanks also to a former Disney artist, Jayme Brown, who illustrated the book.

Another Team SEEZ member was born: Jane, aka Insulator. Jane’s particular body chemistry insulates her and others she’s in contact with from outside threats. She’s equipped with an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor on her abdomen — like Seserman, who also has Type 1 diabetes.

Seserman’s late father lived with the disease and had a saying for it: “Like trying to hold a tiger by the tail.”

Those who live with Type 1 diabetes know the constant struggle of “carb counting” and glucose monitoring to keep the body and mind working.

“No matter how right you do things, you don’t have 100% control,” Seserman has explained to those who don’t know, “and a low can hit you, and it can happen fast, and it’s scary.”

Epilepsy combined for a new low. Seserman found the worst part to be the part after seizures, called the postictal state.

“It’s marked by real confusion and fear, like real fear,” Seserman says. “Who am I? Who are you? You are not recognizing things.”

However more common epilepsy was than Type 1 diabetes — affecting 1 in 26 people, according to Epilepsy Foundation — Seserman found yet more people unaware. Worse, she found people well aware, living with it, but afraid to talk about it. She found people ashamed.

“And there’s no need to be ashamed,” she says. “Epilepsy or any disability, it’s just one part of what makes you you.”

She wrote “Epilectra” for those who know and don’t know. And she wrote it for herself.

“It helped me to realize that, look, having a disability sucks, OK? Having something about your body that doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to, it sucks,” she says. “It’s a terrible phrase, but there are ways to make lemonade out of lemons. And that’s what I did with ‘Epilectra.’ And it’s what I found I was meant to be doing.”

Just as Eden was meant to save the day.

One adversary is an alien named BlaqOut, who introduces himself as the King of Darkness.

“Well, your highness,” Epilectra says, her fingertips sparking, “light always triumphs over dark.”