Risk Factors Associated with Epilepsy - Part II (Doing Things When Advised Otherwise)

[skillefer]

Let's face it....we can't be protected from everything.....We can do things to minimalize the risks to ourselves and others..but there's no guarantee. For example, my family went camping in February. (I know, it's cold...talk to the hubby... ) There we were, sitting around a nice campfire, just talking. We'd eaten dinner about an hour before, and I was at a comfortable temperature. The next thing I know, my hubby is bending over me and asking if I'm okay. I found out that I had had a tonic clonic seizure and fallen into the firepit...hitting my eye on a rock. My hubby ran through the firepit, (burning his feet), picked me up and laid me down on a sleeping bag that my mother in law got out of our tent. I ended up with a beauty of a shiner. My poor hubby got dirty looks whenever we went out together. Between the black eye and the bruises I had on my arms and legs, people probably thought he beat up on me....Nothing could be farther from the truth. But it just goes to show that life happens. We can be doing everything right and still have a seizure.

[Belinda5000]

I've never been given a list of things of what I can and can't do.

I did burn myself really bad cooking when had a seizure and tried pull myself up by using the frying pan and got chicken grease all over me and burnt myself really good.
I now turn the handle when I'm cooking or use back burner.

It doesn'tmatter if someone's home when have my seizure's and I'm showering I still end up on the floor in bathroom. don't lock the door in the bathroom when I shower.

Belinda

[hawke86]

I know what you mean Belinda. Sorry to hear about your burn. I hope you didn't burn yourself that bad. There was one time I burned my right hand and I don't know how it happened. The burn on my hand was the worst kind you can get. I ended up haveing to go to six weeks of physical therapy so I could use my hand again. I still have problems using my hand sometimes. The only thing the doctors could figure how I burned my hand was I had a seizure and that's why I don't know how I did it. Life can be mysterious sometimes. I hope this doesn't scare anyone or offend anyone.

[Belinda5000]

Hawke,

I went to the E/R 2 days after I burnt myself luckily the hot grease didn't get in my face my husband found me on the kitchen floor when he got home from work.
I'm just a lot safer now when I cook.
I hope your hand was ok?

Belinda

[hawke86]

I just got the worst kind of burn a person can get. I think I also got a little nerve damage from the burn. The burn sure did leave a nasty looking scar.

[Crazy Monkey]

Meetz, any idea where this list of do's and don'ts can be found??? You've got me curious now.

I think that my safety is where my own common sense should prevail, you can't think of every circumstance and accidents are going to happen whether you have epilepsy or not, we just have to think a little harder before we participate in things.