You know you have epilepsy if...

[valeriedl]

If you're trying to change the channel on the tv and the remote keeps telling you that "this line is not in service". After a few more tries my grandma was on there talking to you.

Turns out when I started having the seizure the other nigt I picked up the phone instead of the tv remote control. Who knows how many people I called before I called my grandma. They probably thought I was some drunk calling them because I usually just stutter and make noises when I start having one.

I don't know how I ended up calling my grandma either because I don't have her number on speed dial on the phone, but I usually do talk to her every day so I've got her number memorized in my head. I'm also glad that she realized it was me on the other end and talked me through it.

Thanks Grandma!!!

 

[Loopy Lou]

If you feel uncomfortable using any shower other than your own, incase someone has to drag you out of it.

Or you walk back from the gym smelling like an old gym sock for the same reason you just quoted

Someone commented to her friend loudly once that she couldn't believe i was leaving without a shower >.<

 

[Endless]

Your relationship with strangers is, well, strange.....

Strangers in the elevator have this shocked look on their faces, and they are looking at you. You have no idea why.

You are just standing there in the dog park, and a stranger walks up and asks if he can call anyone for you. Last thing you knew you were throwing a ball for your dog. Then don't know where the dog is. What happened???

You are at the jewelry counter in the department store. The stranger next to you looks at you and gives a knowing nod. She says to the clerk behind the counter, "when my mother got older she got like that." What the h*&#?

 

[ColmanMac]

You know you have epilepsy....

When you get into a taxi & think the fare is the time!

 

[epileric]

When you get into a taxi & think the fare is the time!

I've done that on more than one occasion.

That post made it very hard for me to remain in denial about it though.

 

[EmStone3]

You know youre epileptic whennnn....

...Youre sitting in physiology class and your arm jerks so hard to side it knocks your friends computer of her lap and your hand then smacks her in the face... sorry Haley.

...During a yelling argument with your mother you find yourself wondering if you were always this anal about meatloaf, or if its the Keppra kicking in
(we died laughing at the dinner table after we dissected our convo haha)

 

[ColmanMac]

I always quite liked him as singers go, Em!!!!!!!
Col.

 

[CallMeSam]

When you've been looking for the butter for days and when you finally give up the thought of toast and open the cupboard for cereal you find the butter tub sitting on top of the coffee next to the toaster


When you're laughing so hard at something you're not making any sound anymore and shaking and your friend looks at you and goes "Is something funny, or is that the epilepsy?"
:roflmao:

 

[ColmanMac]

I once heard my mobile ringing & couldn't find it til I foll
Followed the sound to the fridge!

 

[Endless]

When your mother (who has dementia) helps you to remember something or helps you navigate to an appointment. Her dementia-brain is doing better than yours. And they put her in an assisted care facility.

 

[ColmanMac]

Hi Endless; Please forgive my warped humour but my Mum died from Alzheimers so, although I appreciate exactly what you say, I'm typing this with a wry smile on my face thinking of my Mum - she seemed to have the Irish in her to the last!

Thanks for putting the memories in my mind.

Col.

 

[valeriedl]

If you wear your clothes backwards all day and don't realize it until you tale them off at night. I was wondering why my clothes just didn't feel right today!

 

[sbncmo]

Here's one:

You start to spray your asthma inhaler into your nose and your nasal spray into your mouth.

I did this one evening after a series of seizures sent me to the ER earlier that afternoon.

Shelia

 

[KARDSHARQUE]

You know you have Epilepsy when your son is driving by and tells his friend to stop the car, that's my father walking in the snow with no shoes or pants. It happened to me.

 

[C0urt]

you mean it isn't no pants day ?

 

[occb]

When you only need to walk one-and-a-half blocks down a fenced-in alley to get home (where you really want to be) and suddenly you're 7 blocks away with no idea how you got there.

Or, when you go to the same doctor you've been seeing for years, get lost, then momentarily become one with the universe on a grubby street corner.

Nightfighter's latest adventures *sigh*

 

[ColmanMac]

Hi "V" - try wandering round the house, starkers, convinced your'e dressed (OMG, here comes the Priest!).
Col.

 

[Endless]

Hey, OCCB,

Funny thing is, my doc doesn't count those as seizures because I don't have a witness. He says it could have an alternative explanation, like loss of concentration or distraction.

So.... one second I was walking down the sidewalk like a normal person and suddenly I was half in the street and there is a city bus screaming to a halt at the bus stop 6 inches from my nose. Someone had ahold of the back of my coat and was pulling me back.

You know you have epilepsy when you often depend on the kindness of strangers to keep you from harm.

 

[occb]

Hey, OCCB,

Funny thing is, my doc doesn't count those as seizures because I don't have a witness. He says it could have an alternative explanation, like loss of concentration or distraction.

So.... one second I was walking down the sidewalk like a normal person and suddenly I was half in the street and there is a city bus screaming to a halt at the bus stop 6 inches from my nose. Someone had ahold of the back of my coat and was pulling me back.

You know you have epilepsy when you often depend on the kindness of strangers to keep you from harm.

Yeah, funny how "loss of concentration" leads to potentially deadly confrontations with city busses. The same thing has happened to nightfighter too -- he went from waiting for the bus to standing in front of it and being pulled back by others. What kind of loss of concentration makes you step out in front of the bus you're waiting for? Silly doctors!

 

[Endless]

It's more like I stepped into the side of the moving bus. But yeah, it's silly.

Below I said that we often depend on the kindness of strangers to stay safe. How wonderful - there always seems to be someone there and they have never let me down.