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Wow! Just bruises? You are very coordinated. Or padded. Or you wear one of those big sumo wrestler suits. Now there's an idea. A light weight padded undersuit for people who fall or have seizures. When they start ot fall the suit expands instantly like a car air bag. Whooomp!

I know what you mean, though. After a CP sometimes I have deep ugly mystery bruises. Don't know if I fell or or ran into something or what. I'm grateful it wasn't a cracked skull.
 
Sorry to post irreverent 'you might be ifs' without introducing myself. I'll take a minute in the foyer some day soon and offer a more formal introduction, but i'm right in the middle of finals, and this was a natural outlet. I sincerely hope none of these have been found offensive- absolutely not my intent. I love this thread.

Smoking crack is a full-contact sport.

When you’re stressed, instead of drinking hot tea or taking a bath, your mother suggests putting on a helmet.

You make a helluva first-impression that is often extended to nearby walls and or floors.

You hate the word ‘ictal’ but not as much as 'diastat'.

Anyone has suggested you and your friend who also has seizures should start a sorority- Delta Delta Flop.

You’ve seriously contemplated a custom home built out of party bounce palaces.

You’ve ever listed ‘fall down go boom’ as an activity on a social-networking site.

Most people work to improve their status, you aim to avoid status at all costs.

You’ve ever suspected your life’s primary purpose may be promoting seizure awareness.

Anyone has ever recommended you consider a diet consisting of 90% fat. :ponder:

You've been snowed (versed & ativan) in the E.R. and asked everybody to come to a party at your house (which you vaguely, vaguely remember upon being reminded. You anticipate 6-8 max). About 25 cops and EMT's and hospital employees show up and it turns out to be the party of the season.

You can decipher the following: I was dx'd with JME by my epi with an EEG, (had MRI and CT), Rx was Lamictal 100 mg p.o. tid, which controlled the myos, absence, SP's, atonics, and GTC's...


Your roommate doesn't know whether to call a priest or 911.


Filling your prescriptions costs more than you make in a month.


You take meds to help offset the side-effects of the meds you have to take.


You're friends see an ambulance on campus and call to see if you're okay.


After an incident that involved the threat of taser deployment, your picture is now hanging up on some local police station wall. Similarly, you are well versed in your state's statutes regarding the protective custody of adults.

Your friend's little girl has told you she didn't like it very much when you had those fevers.

You've explained a black eye as being on account of concrete poisoning secondary to gravitational allergic reaction.

(I adopted a couple of these from an epilepsy.com post)
 
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You've spent enough time in hospitals to develop positive connotations with the word 'discharge'.
 
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Wow! Just bruises? You are very coordinated.
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I know what you mean...It's the samt way for me. My husband will see a bruise and say "Where did that come from?" Darned if I can tell him. I do consider myself pretty lucky when it comes to not being hurt too much when I fall. It's usually just a bruise here and there and sometimes my head if I hit the floor hard enough. :boxin:

Oh, by the way I forgot one in my list.

When your husband is blowing gently in your face to get your attention after having a seizure and is asking you what your name is at the same time and you come back with "Windy"...(Wendy) My name is Brandy. :dontknow:
 
if you have a job to pay for a drug habit, and it is only because topamax is 500 a month.
 
If you have the pharmacy's phone number memorized because of all the pescriptions you have to refill each month!
 
You are waking up from a seizure and 4 gorgeos men are standing over your bed, and your'e screaming "leave me alone!" Because your'e post ictal.What a way to meet men.
 
Ohhhhhh... firemen are so cute! Stilldancing, if you have your faculties about you at all, hand out your phone number. Or take cookies to the station house later. :)
 
If you wake up at night,
hands rubing the sheet.
And you get to play the game. "What is that bodily fluid."
Is it sweat ? oh no is it pee?
 
You've been on so many drugs to control your seizures that you don't care whether or not you're having seizures, or you can't remember whether or not you're having seizures, or you know you're having them, but you can't remember what they're called.
 
You've thought, "Hey, well if my legs ever chopped off, at least I won't have so far to fall."

(I'm tall and I tend to go down like a tree.)
 
You get excited when it snows. Not because you ski or sled or it looks nice, but 'cause it's SO much softer than concrete.
 
you find yourself washing your hair in your kitchen sink, though you took a shower already

you wake up on the floor and your school security person who you know very well tries to help you up and you slap her in the face and scream "WHO ARE YOU!!?!" also did this to my dad lol poor dad

your mom comes to school to drop off your brothers homework and they don't even have to ask who she is when she presses the buzzer.

F*** and epilepsy are 2 of your most commonly used words on facebook
:roflmao:

Your math teacher makes someone take you to the nurse and you fight and refuse to believe you blacked out 4 times in 5 minutes
 
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If you feel uncomfortable using any shower other than your own, incase someone has to drag you out of it.
 
If you sleep in past 10 or decide to have a lie in and everyone in the house comes by your room to ask if you're "Okay? Sick, just tired? Alright then!"

When one moment you're sitting down at the computer thinking "I need to do an essay" and next thing you know 40 minutes have passed and the whole thing is written. (I had to go through and look to see what I had written!)
 
haha

you wake up on the floor on christmas eve and everyone is running around in a panic except for the 2 year old, who is calmly petting you and giving you kisses until you wake up. love the little guy so much.

my dad's cousin had his new girlfriend over meeting us for the first time too.....i'm sure she'll never forget that! :roflmao:
 
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