Hiya everyone,
I never want to see another July like this last one. Bored to tears, followed by the worst 2 weeks I've ever had.
I went to hospital (Kings College Hospital) and had the MRI, PET and 9 days of EEG in early july.
Annoying.
On the sunday, I had to phone up to check that a bed was availiable. It wasn't. I sat on my backside and had 3 complex partial seizures.
Monday, I went up to London with my parents, had a complex partial in the Day Room waiting for a bed and another trying to sleep that night (not wired up to the eeg)
I then had another on tuesday literally 2 minutes before I was injected for the PET scan.
Then I was wired up and... nothing... about 6 simple partials (the technician told me that only 30% of simple partials show up on EEG because they affect such small area of the brain).
The neurologist said that I had abnormal EEG patterns in my sleep, which are typical for anyone with epilepsy.
10 days of yawn, with only David Eddings books and crap games on my laptop for company.
Then my parents picked me up (on a wednesday) and off back home.
Two days later my father had a heart attack and spent 13 days in hospital. The first was mild, but the second in the lab during the angiogram was major and it was touch and go for a while. The blood clotted in the coronary artery while they were putting stents in. It could have happened any time, just a miracle that he was in the lab at the time and they saved his life.
But he's going to be ok, thank god. Out of hospital and resting. Things like this really made me really appreciate just how much I love my father and just how strong my mother is for coping with all this.
Best wishes everyone, hoping you are having a good summer.
I never want to see another July like this last one. Bored to tears, followed by the worst 2 weeks I've ever had.
I went to hospital (Kings College Hospital) and had the MRI, PET and 9 days of EEG in early july.
Annoying.
On the sunday, I had to phone up to check that a bed was availiable. It wasn't. I sat on my backside and had 3 complex partial seizures.
Monday, I went up to London with my parents, had a complex partial in the Day Room waiting for a bed and another trying to sleep that night (not wired up to the eeg)
I then had another on tuesday literally 2 minutes before I was injected for the PET scan.
Then I was wired up and... nothing... about 6 simple partials (the technician told me that only 30% of simple partials show up on EEG because they affect such small area of the brain).
The neurologist said that I had abnormal EEG patterns in my sleep, which are typical for anyone with epilepsy.
10 days of yawn, with only David Eddings books and crap games on my laptop for company.
Then my parents picked me up (on a wednesday) and off back home.
Two days later my father had a heart attack and spent 13 days in hospital. The first was mild, but the second in the lab during the angiogram was major and it was touch and go for a while. The blood clotted in the coronary artery while they were putting stents in. It could have happened any time, just a miracle that he was in the lab at the time and they saved his life.
But he's going to be ok, thank god. Out of hospital and resting. Things like this really made me really appreciate just how much I love my father and just how strong my mother is for coping with all this.
Best wishes everyone, hoping you are having a good summer.