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When you have a completely circular phone conversation with your friend and they end up saying "uh.... i'll call you back later" because you can't remember what you just said and are repeating yourself, or you think you've said something when you haven't.

Apparently i arranged the other day to meet up with a friend i've not seen in ages and she said to me "ok, make sure you write it in your diary, cinema and then getting a takeout to eat at mine"

She messaged me today and said "you coming out on fri?"

I look in my diary, see i'm fully booked for that day and tell her sorry, i've arranged to go out with someone else. I've scribbled down something intelligible, have no memory of it and was trying to decipher it.

She points out that that someone else is actually her ¬.¬

I think this is just a long winded way of saying i had a load of partials whilst on the phone and then forgot the conversation even took place lol.
 
1 ) Video Electroencephalograms seems to be a cure-all for
people with Epilepsy ~ hardly ever seem to ever land any
seizures no matter how hard everyone tries to provoke one,
but the moment the patient goes home ... Shish-ka-boom-bah,
go figure - patient gets the seizure (and it's not unusual either)!
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That sounds like the memory issue many of us with Epilepsy have. I write things in a log to remind me especially seizures and changes to meds. If I write something down and put it aside then pick it up several days later I often forget what it's for.
 
Yesterday I tried to open my house front door with the electronic car remote. Then I wondered why the door wasn't opening. It was a duh moment!
 
When you wake up in the morning thinking it is nighttime, and you take the meds that you thought you forgot. Then figure out that it is morning, and take your morning meds. Then see your medication box is all screwed up, really remember you took your meds or maybe not, and take more just to be sure, then run out the door because you are late for the doctor's appointment that is really tomorrow.
 
You can get hit by a truck, and think to yourself "That wasnt so bad, I've felt worse after a seizure"

**PS I am okay, just a massive bruise on my thigh and charlie horsed my butt**
 
when you see an educational video of an actual seizure and think, "damn, i wish my seizures happened on a bed or a couch. i envy you, thats alot less painful than when it happens on pavement."

most people would think "omg i can't believe what im seeing" but we just tink "damn, lucky chic"

lol

o'm glad your ok rae
 
When you are laying in bed talking to your boyfriend and start crying and have no reason to be crying. then start crying harder cause you dont know why you are crying.
 
when you take your medication for the evening and then 30 minutes later you cant remember if you took your meds or not, and you dont want to miss your dose and have a seizure so you end up taking a DOUBLE dose of meds, makes ya feel real nice (sarcasm)
 
when your 13 year son is making fun of the way your seizures look and in turn I'm doing the same thing to him. lol Oh well. At least we have a sense of humor about it.
 
my mom mimicks me. my sister, when she found me, she didn't think of a seizure, she came into my room to save me from the zombies of her seven year old mind. the fact that she tried to save me is the sweetest thing, but it is funny
 
When your medical records are the thickness off a brick.
 
you are sitting in traffic, and you hear a horn. You look around and it is the emts that have picked you up a few times in the past waving because they recognize you.
 
when you see someone stop walking and go all pale in the middle of a hospital. no one is looking but those that do, think he is about to vomit. me on the other hand, i say to my mom "he's having a seizure". and sure enough, seconds later, he starts walking like nothing happened.
 
a couple weeks ago, i found a slice of american cheese under my pillow. i have no idea where it came from.

i also wrote an essay for global the other day and when i got it back, (i'm an A student), he said "its ok, you can make it up". i look down to see complete gibberish in half the essay. the other half, has a two inch space between each letter.
 
i keep coming up with others that have happened
your alarm clock starts ringing so instead of turning it off, you shake your lamp because it JUST WON'T STOP!

8:20 pm "mom, what time is it?
8:20 pm"blah blah blah"
8:20 pm"ok thanks"
8:20 pm "wait, what time is it? i know you told me, but i forgot"

when you smell rubber gloves and say "migraine or seizure" outloud. everyone looks at you and you say. "its ok, this aura comes two days before the event.

when you've collapsed in the hallway at school and a random kid comes up to you and the friend whos with you. she says, "did u have a seizure?" and i say "not yet" all of a sudden, teachers come at me and the nurse has been called, all because of some verbal diarreah. it only happens because everyone in the school has witnessed a seizure of mine at least once, only one tonic clonic, but several of everything else.

as soon as i post this, i'm going to have something to add. i'm trying to stall, but i don't think chuSJKDCKADFUBCABNXSUBBBIKWUDBCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCUBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
 
I love that one!! Especially when it is your story...I also check with my hubby when watching tv...we were watching what?..what hapened?...who are these people?...and by the way, who are you and why are you on our couch....
 
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