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You know you got epilepsy when you come to in the E.R., see & grab the popsicle stick covered with gauze, & as you throw it across the room, you notice it hits a really scary looking chick dressed in white! (That thought reminds me of the nurse on 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest'. SCARY!!!)
 
you go shopping and loose your cart and have your hands full with items. Three times you loose your cart and just before this you study those around you to see if there ears are horridly ringing as well.
 
When you're sitting on the couch with friends watching break dancers on TV and have the following conversation:

Me: I could so do that.

Friend 1: Not voluntarily. *Friend proceeds to blush, stammer and overall looks mortified.*

Me: *Can't stop laughing*

Friend 2: *Has fallen over laughing*

Friend 1: I shouldn't have said that! Oh my God dude, that...I'm so sorry!

Me: *finally catching my breath* That's a good one, I'll have to remember it!

Friend 1: You're...you're not mad?

Friend 2: If she's offended give it 5 minutes, she won't remember anyway!


The fact that my friends can joke about my Epilepsy just makes my day. The fact that he felt embaressed about it shows how he cares for my feelings. It took awhile to get him to feel okay, then he got some great jokes going. I think he'd been saving up! ;)
 
When you go to the local coffee shop, order two coffees, and suddenly you're aware of the clerk yelling to get your attention and telling you the coffees you ordered were at the counter, and the line-up that was behind you is gone.

You respond, "D'oh, I was daydreaming," and the clerks shoots you a quizzical look and says, "Uh... daydreaming... yeah... that was some daydream..."
 
You know you have epilepsy when.....

you have more icepacks than food in your freezer
 
You know you have epilepsy when your mom finds you on the floor shortly after a loud crash and you look up at her and say, "Who the hell are you?"

LOL...i actually said this to my mom about 25 years ago while coming out of a seizure. :roflmao: We laugh about it to this day.
 
If you jump on the bed in the middle of the night thinking you're Superman with your feet where your heads suppossed to be and freak your now awake wife up. Then you do it again the next morning while the bed is empty and proceed to bounce off the bed, land with a big THUD on the floor and say weakly...OUCH! Also when your at your in laws fixing to take a shower and decide to knock the curtain rod down and try to go and prance around their living room...NUDE! Thank God my wife was there... and I now LOCK the door when I shower.
 
When you go outside wearing only your underwear and a short t-shirt and suddenly realize that some old lady is talking to you and asking why you are walking the streets semi-naked :D Well, I am glad I had my underwear on because that happened shortly after taking a shower so it could have been much more embarrassing :P.
 
You know you have epilepsy if you turn a television face down in a hotel room in the middle of the night and when asked what you are doing you say I'm fixing the TV
 
When you suddenly start acting like a drunk/drugged teenager and begin undressing in front of a group of priests who don't even know you... apparently behaving as if it was the most exciting and funny thing you have ever done...


-my first complex partial seizure- i am so glad I have no memory of what happened because just hearing about it made me feel sick back then!
 
When your husband tells you he heard you in the kitchen telling the hot dogs "I'm going to eat you... and you... and you... and you!"

When you start throwing all the covers off the bed and when asked why you say "I need to get rid of the snakes!"

You often have bruises and are so sore you're convinced you got into a fight with 8 200 lb men in the back of a dark alley.

When you boss asks if you had just been hit by a train when you left him the message saying you couldn't come into work that day.
When you felt like you HAD been hit by a train when you left the message saying you couldn't come to work that day.

When you're the only one in the room that can hear that high-pitched sound or see how much that light is flickering.
 
When you always thought you were just odd until you read this thread, show it to your husband and he starts telling you of things you don't remember. Like searching for a spoon while calling out "Mrrrr. Spooooooooon!"
 
If after a grand mal during the there but not there phase you tell a nurse she's cute only to find out later that it was actually one of your very good friends wife
 
You know you have epilepsy when someone ELSE misplaces something and then calls you at work to see "what you've done with it"

For example, my dad misplaced his glasses and called me at work to see if i've taken them/put them in the fridge/microwave/bird cage :noevil:

He eventually found them down the side of the chair cushion, but said to me "well, you can't blame me for asking!"
 
if you only have to fight having seizures when you have a full bladder
 
When you hold up a fork and ask your dinner guest if they would like a spoon. Three times.
 
You get used to eating a lot of cold food.from being unconscious while it was hot
 
You know you have epilepsy when you've tried to comment on this page and can't remember what you wanted to say. Or if you've said it before.

You know you have epilepsy when your talking to a friend who also has E, and one of you hears garble when the other speaks and you play the game "who had the seizure". Was it you who heard wrong? Or them who spoke wrong?
 
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