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kyrissa said:
I lost my ring after ER trip! :tdown:
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lost a bicycle once, took lots of phone calls to get it back. have lost glasses. have ran back home from a hospital in reno in just my shorts.
the list goes on
 
You have more plastic bags from the pharmacy than you do from Wal-Mart!
 
You know you have epilepsy when

You try to reply to this post only to realize you just lost your glasses that you just picked up so decide to put your contacts in.... But you don't have contacts.
 
You know...
When after getting a concussion, your first thought is that the seizure you know is coming, has better timing than the last one.
 
I discovered this in an Epilepsy Blog where all jokes referenced to E were banned. God, anyone with a serious illness needs to laugh! :roflmao:

First, my joke...

Epilepsy is when your walking around your house looking for your hat, saying "Where the hell is my hat!" Friend arrives at door "Can't find my hat anywhere! I've been looking for it for half an hour!" Friend points and says "It's on your head"

Re: Removed Epilepsy Jokes
Also I'd like to add that this whole thing just fuels the stigma that people with so-and-so illness should feel miserable or shamed or secretive or sad, and that these are the only emotions you're allowed to feel in public. These are the only "normal" feelings.

Imagine just being diagnosed, looking for support and normality, and the first thing you read is that people are getting in trouble because they made a joke about it. What does that do to your identity?

I'm not trying to be harsh here, I think it is seriously very important that those feelings and that mode of expression is not repressed or censored. I think it should be given more thought than this.
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Sometimes ya gotta laugh

Geez, I can laugh at it and the people I work with who saw me have a tonic clonic even feel comfortable making jokes about it, really, it's called LIFE!:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
 
My friends make some of the most offensive jokes. they hep me laugh. I have to laugh to keep from crying some days.
 
You know you are on anti-seizure meds when...

you have taken two puffs of a asthma rescue inhaler (pure adrenaline right into your lungs), a decongestant, and a espresso slushy (all uppers), and you are still so tired you have to think about it for about 10 minutes before you get up out of your chair.
 
I actually spent a good 15 minutes looking all over the house for my glasses yesterday until I happened to walk by a mirror and see they were on my face! The worst part is that I'm pretty much blind without them on so I can't figure out why I didn't realize that I could see even though I didn't think I had them on????
 
You know you are on anti-seizure meds when... you try to vote on the memory/cognitive effects poll again.
 
... you are telling your husband about some of the things that happened to other people on this thread... and he tells you also had a grand mal seizure and went flying off the back of a treadmill when you went to the gym. (see previous post). Whaddya know :D
 
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Geez, I was thinking of signing up for the gym. Funny, I was just thinking about the treadmill last night. If I breath to heavily it leads me to hyperventilate and then I go into a tonic clonic. I "could" keep the speed on low.
 
I went on the treadmill plenty of times after that and was fine. It was my first time at the gym and I was way too enthusiatic.
 
I found a gym with a dance dance machine, that should be even more hilarious than the treadmills for epileptics.
 
I think I would be better off with one of those dance machines at home. Just because I would be acting a fool and be probably getting myself into a seizure really easy. lol
 
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