It was the first week of my college internship at a domestic violence shelter.
I was in an office with an employee and another intern shadowing a "Crisis Hotline" where DV victims call in for help then I started getting my deja vu/forced thinking thoughts...and then thought to myself, "F**K NO, this is not happening!!!!! :soap:
Next thing I know I'm sitting down asking what's going on. They told me that I got up, walked out of the office and just walked around as if I didn't know where I was and what was going on and asked an intern who are you and what are you doing here, then I told them I have epilepsy and that's why I can't drive.
I don't remember none of this!! All I remember is sitting down listening to the call and then 3 people starting at me, "Like what the hell is wrong with her?".
I'm kind of happy it was an unconscious seizure, just an altered awareness seizure, i.e - conscious complex seizure. When I first got the internship I told my supervisor about my epilepsy, so I'm not worried about people knowing, it's just I wanted to keep it between me and my supervisor.
Now 1 intern and 2 employees know, what I am worried about is them telling others. I had a great conversation with both of the employees after the seizure, one of them revealed to me she had lupus and the other told me more of what I was doing and saying during the seizure. But I didn't tell them not to tell anyone...I was scared to say that.
I'm hoping the next 5 months will be seizure free at my internship, I beginning to think I ate something that caused it, it was granola bar that said gluten free, but it had almonds and coconut in it, I might have had a problem with those ingredients, cause I have gone 2 months w/o a seizure before.
I was in an office with an employee and another intern shadowing a "Crisis Hotline" where DV victims call in for help then I started getting my deja vu/forced thinking thoughts...and then thought to myself, "F**K NO, this is not happening!!!!! :soap:
Next thing I know I'm sitting down asking what's going on. They told me that I got up, walked out of the office and just walked around as if I didn't know where I was and what was going on and asked an intern who are you and what are you doing here, then I told them I have epilepsy and that's why I can't drive.
I don't remember none of this!! All I remember is sitting down listening to the call and then 3 people starting at me, "Like what the hell is wrong with her?".
I'm kind of happy it was an unconscious seizure, just an altered awareness seizure, i.e - conscious complex seizure. When I first got the internship I told my supervisor about my epilepsy, so I'm not worried about people knowing, it's just I wanted to keep it between me and my supervisor.
Now 1 intern and 2 employees know, what I am worried about is them telling others. I had a great conversation with both of the employees after the seizure, one of them revealed to me she had lupus and the other told me more of what I was doing and saying during the seizure. But I didn't tell them not to tell anyone...I was scared to say that.
I'm hoping the next 5 months will be seizure free at my internship, I beginning to think I ate something that caused it, it was granola bar that said gluten free, but it had almonds and coconut in it, I might have had a problem with those ingredients, cause I have gone 2 months w/o a seizure before.
