Have Epilepsy, contemplating medical school...

Hi everyone, long time no post. I'm feeling a little down right now. I'm at a crossroads in my life. I'm 28, married and with a one year old son (who is awesome). My sezuires are currently controled on topamax, and my last neuro doc finally thinks he has diagnosed me with JME (No other neurologist has been able to figure out what I have had since my onset at 13). Any way, like most people with epilepsy I have been constantly told through out my life what I CANT do (don't worry no John Locke impressions incoming). In fact there are way to many extra curricular activities/careers for me to list that I've been told I can't do, and I'm sure everyone on this board has run into the same. Also during high school I was on depakote, which for some has terrible side effects. It made me stupid and fat, and only after taking my self off it was I able to get grade passable enough to get into college.

In college sezuires came back, so did the meds. Grades were fine, till my mom died of cancer. It was a long drawn out process. Forced my self to graduate with terrible grades. Any way fast foward to now. I look at mysel, someone who has always had an aptitude for science, but was never given a chance to show it. I got my degree in film (good choice that was), but when doing my internship had a sezuire could no longer work in hollywood. So I guess the point of my life story is, should I jump in and do the pre-med science pre reqs. It's going to be a lot of work, but I know I can handle it. I just don't want to spend the next year to two years on something just to have someone tell me "an epileptic cant do this, go work at wal mart...", nothing against wal mart (my wife worked there for 6 years), it's just I feel like this disability comes with a list of restrictions, and after having that weigh you down so much and hearing it so often sometimes you start to give up before you even try. I don't want to be defined by my epilepsy.