After reading a few sob stories from people with serious conditions I feel like I shouldn't even be bitchen right now because my problems cant even compare, but everyone needs to vent whether their problems are big or small. For those of you who have serious epileptic conditions I truly hope that everything goes well for all of you. I am going to vent about a little less serious matter though.
I am a CA resident and I was told that if you are seizure free for three months as a complex partial epileptic you will get your license back. When i found out i was epileptic i took it on the chin did my research and handled it as i needed to. Took meds a couple didn't work and finally got on one that did. I am on topamax and fortunately, I have been seizure free for three and half months so i went to my neurologists and he filled out the paper work and looked me in the eye while i looked back at him noticing the plaques from Stanford and Boston university he had earned while he literally made a guarantee that i would be given an opportunity to be seen by a human being at the dmv and take a driving test and written test. Anyway i got a letter from the dmv rather quickly the day before but opened on christmas eve saying that i had been denied a drivers license for another 94 days because a DMV 'official' who has never met me or seen me, or I am smarter than and can drive circles around 24 hours a day 7 days a week knows more about my condition and mental well being than my neurologist. How does that work? Anyway, this woman made a typo on the form that said December 2nd was when she filled out the paper work, when she actually meant the 20th. On christmas eve i was hanging out to the small possibility that this meant this paper work was not in response to the doctors note, but i called the san francisco office today and it was and the dumb woman that has the authority to devour, digest, shit out and flush a 22 year old college students independence doesnt either have the time to write the correct date or the IQ next to her signature. And she has the right to override my neurologists opinion? How fucked up is this system?
Two months before I was diagnosed with epilepsy and my license was revoked i was in town because I had to show up to court because I had to testify against a man who hit me when he was drunk as a skunk when i was stopped at a stop light. Two miles from testifying at the court house from the town i should not have even been in I was driving through a green light going the speed speed limit and ran into an elderly man driving a toyota who had ran a red light. When i got out of my car he said that he was confused and didnt know what happened, and i told he ran a red light and agreed. There was no proof who was at fault, I had to pay 1000$ for an insurance premium because he lied and got away with it. That will most likely come back to haunt me because of my condition. Both of those men probably have drivers licenses right now. I dont, I have never been in an accident that was my fault or got a ticket and i am 22 and been living with this condition all my life. I did everything i could since august to get my life back in order and of course everything i can control myself is going well, things that are out of my control are fucked, that is just how life goes.
If anyone has any good info about driving, or good stories please reply.
I am a CA resident and I was told that if you are seizure free for three months as a complex partial epileptic you will get your license back. When i found out i was epileptic i took it on the chin did my research and handled it as i needed to. Took meds a couple didn't work and finally got on one that did. I am on topamax and fortunately, I have been seizure free for three and half months so i went to my neurologists and he filled out the paper work and looked me in the eye while i looked back at him noticing the plaques from Stanford and Boston university he had earned while he literally made a guarantee that i would be given an opportunity to be seen by a human being at the dmv and take a driving test and written test. Anyway i got a letter from the dmv rather quickly the day before but opened on christmas eve saying that i had been denied a drivers license for another 94 days because a DMV 'official' who has never met me or seen me, or I am smarter than and can drive circles around 24 hours a day 7 days a week knows more about my condition and mental well being than my neurologist. How does that work? Anyway, this woman made a typo on the form that said December 2nd was when she filled out the paper work, when she actually meant the 20th. On christmas eve i was hanging out to the small possibility that this meant this paper work was not in response to the doctors note, but i called the san francisco office today and it was and the dumb woman that has the authority to devour, digest, shit out and flush a 22 year old college students independence doesnt either have the time to write the correct date or the IQ next to her signature. And she has the right to override my neurologists opinion? How fucked up is this system?
Two months before I was diagnosed with epilepsy and my license was revoked i was in town because I had to show up to court because I had to testify against a man who hit me when he was drunk as a skunk when i was stopped at a stop light. Two miles from testifying at the court house from the town i should not have even been in I was driving through a green light going the speed speed limit and ran into an elderly man driving a toyota who had ran a red light. When i got out of my car he said that he was confused and didnt know what happened, and i told he ran a red light and agreed. There was no proof who was at fault, I had to pay 1000$ for an insurance premium because he lied and got away with it. That will most likely come back to haunt me because of my condition. Both of those men probably have drivers licenses right now. I dont, I have never been in an accident that was my fault or got a ticket and i am 22 and been living with this condition all my life. I did everything i could since august to get my life back in order and of course everything i can control myself is going well, things that are out of my control are fucked, that is just how life goes.
If anyone has any good info about driving, or good stories please reply.