You know you have epilepsy if...
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I remember, as a kid, all the tatty peelings, cabbage leaves, carrot skins, you name it, going into my Gran's still in the outhouse @ the bottom of the garden!
Now we just take the "precaution" of taking a half bottle extra for the nice friendly man @ customs!!!
Col.
Now we just take the "precaution" of taking a half bottle extra for the nice friendly man @ customs!!!
Col.
stilldancing_98
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Your epileptologist is closer friends with you than any body else is.
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The worst ever ever ever for me was waking up while peeing on the clean basket of laundry in the middle of my room in front of my bed with my husband sitting up yelling at me what the heck are you doing. Well, before I snapped back I said to him stop watching me, in a very garbled voice. This was before I found out about my seizures. We thought it was just sleep peeing. OMg's I can't believe I just shared that and I'm new to this form! LOL
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I think it was at school. When I was 10. Then at my mom's work a dental office. But the biggest public one I remember was I rehearsing for the musical L'il Abner and I fell off the stage and back then those t/c knocked me out for a few days. And I peed in front of everybody.lol And they all thought I was dead. Till I came back to school a week later. And I did do the musical. lol
you know u have epilepsy if....
-your husband tells your new epilepsy specialist that if she wants to see you have a "big" one, to put you on a treadmill and turn up the heat
-You no longer go out in public by yourself for fear of an "incident"
-The EMTs no longer have to ask you what hospital (they already know) and if your hubby is on the way to get you
-your friends favorite time to hang out with you is 25-35 minutes after you have taken your meds, so she can pull u out of your house and laugh at the constant 'say what you are thinking before you can filter' to innocent people you don't know (not on that med anymore.. had serious problem speaking my mind with out thinking, and my inabitions were way lowered)
-you don't have as many friends as you used to
-your buddy waits till you have a sz to talk s%$# because she knows you wo'nt remember any of it (sadly she has moved away and was the only one i felt comfortable with as far as going in public... she is the one that would take me out after i took my meds.. hey personal amusement for her... she never treated me any different)
-And finally... (this one is really funny, because she had no clue what was happening eventhough i have told her about my szs) your newer friend comes over and asked what she did that upset you, because a few days ago she had come over.. everything was fine and wham you started cussing her out and kicked her out of the house! And you have no recolection of her even visitiing
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-your husband tells your new epilepsy specialist that if she wants to see you have a "big" one, to put you on a treadmill and turn up the heat
-You no longer go out in public by yourself for fear of an "incident"
-The EMTs no longer have to ask you what hospital (they already know) and if your hubby is on the way to get you
-your friends favorite time to hang out with you is 25-35 minutes after you have taken your meds, so she can pull u out of your house and laugh at the constant 'say what you are thinking before you can filter' to innocent people you don't know (not on that med anymore.. had serious problem speaking my mind with out thinking, and my inabitions were way lowered)
-you don't have as many friends as you used to
-your buddy waits till you have a sz to talk s%$# because she knows you wo'nt remember any of it (sadly she has moved away and was the only one i felt comfortable with as far as going in public... she is the one that would take me out after i took my meds.. hey personal amusement for her... she never treated me any different)
-And finally... (this one is really funny, because she had no clue what was happening eventhough i have told her about my szs) your newer friend comes over and asked what she did that upset you, because a few days ago she had come over.. everything was fine and wham you started cussing her out and kicked her out of the house! And you have no recolection of her even visitiing
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You’ve been likened to a fish and they weren’t talking about your swimming or your drinking abilities.
You’d rather not carpe diem.
You’re scalp’s been stitched, and stapled AND superglued.
The first responders know your birthday by heart; dispatch has your sister's number on speed-dial.
All you want for Christmas really are your two front teeth.
You can’t remember where you parked your bicycle.
Baths are not relaxing- baths are scary.
Inflatable sumo suits, helmets and bubble wrap start to look like appropriate outing attire.
You’ve been stopped a dozen times for public intoxication with a BAC of 0.0.
When the floor needs mopping you lather up and flop away.
You had to buy the senior citizen pill minder box because the standard size was too small to accommodate your daily tablet load.
You’re personally responsible for a case or two of hylephobia.
If you were smaller and luckier and green, you’d be an epileprichaun.
Insurance is your #1 incentive for staying in school.
Maytag schmaytag: throw some detergent and some dirty laundry with you in the bathtub and the clothes are clean before you come to.
Your very own tongue is your leading source of protein.
You owe your life to a darn fine lifeguard.
You’ve felt like an epileper.
Discussing what animal you’d be if you could choose, your friend suggests you avoid species with modes of locomotion that involve flight.
Waking up with your face in a puddle of blood and vomit ain’t no thang.
Your workout routine includes occasional seizurecising.
When you hear ‘tonic’ you think ‘clonic’ instead of ‘gin’.
There are audible booms when you're the one to ‘crash’ a party.
You’ve ever been asked “WHERE is your MAGNET??!!!!!!”
You’d rather not carpe diem.
You’re scalp’s been stitched, and stapled AND superglued.
The first responders know your birthday by heart; dispatch has your sister's number on speed-dial.
All you want for Christmas really are your two front teeth.
You can’t remember where you parked your bicycle.
Baths are not relaxing- baths are scary.
Inflatable sumo suits, helmets and bubble wrap start to look like appropriate outing attire.
You’ve been stopped a dozen times for public intoxication with a BAC of 0.0.
When the floor needs mopping you lather up and flop away.
You had to buy the senior citizen pill minder box because the standard size was too small to accommodate your daily tablet load.
You’re personally responsible for a case or two of hylephobia.
If you were smaller and luckier and green, you’d be an epileprichaun.
Insurance is your #1 incentive for staying in school.
Maytag schmaytag: throw some detergent and some dirty laundry with you in the bathtub and the clothes are clean before you come to.
Your very own tongue is your leading source of protein.
You owe your life to a darn fine lifeguard.
You’ve felt like an epileper.
Discussing what animal you’d be if you could choose, your friend suggests you avoid species with modes of locomotion that involve flight.
Waking up with your face in a puddle of blood and vomit ain’t no thang.
Your workout routine includes occasional seizurecising.
When you hear ‘tonic’ you think ‘clonic’ instead of ‘gin’.
There are audible booms when you're the one to ‘crash’ a party.
You’ve ever been asked “WHERE is your MAGNET??!!!!!!”
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You know you have epilepsy if:
You come to in the back of an unmarked police car convinced you are in Amsterdam,even though you are in fact in Dublin cityonder:
You come to in the back of an unmarked police car convinced you are in Amsterdam,even though you are in fact in Dublin city
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Court, I didn't know ya had it in ya. I hide my batteries. lol I Boy, I need a boyfriend bad.
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You know you have epilepsy if....
1) You are talking on the phone with your dad and suddenly you black out and when you come to you hear a voice, trace it back to the phone and pick up the phone yelling "Who is this???"
2) You a eating a sandwich and next thing you know you are having a hand cramp and your lunch is smashed in your hand.
3) You have stood in the bathroom talking to the ceramic clown sitting on the shelf behind the toilet.
4) You have a seizure while frying hamburgers and you lay your arm on the stove and suffer 2nd degree burns and you don't even feel it until 10 minutes later.
5) You can fall on cement, tile, marble, and anything else hard and never hurt yourself other than bruises.
1) You are talking on the phone with your dad and suddenly you black out and when you come to you hear a voice, trace it back to the phone and pick up the phone yelling "Who is this???"
2) You a eating a sandwich and next thing you know you are having a hand cramp and your lunch is smashed in your hand.
3) You have stood in the bathroom talking to the ceramic clown sitting on the shelf behind the toilet.
4) You have a seizure while frying hamburgers and you lay your arm on the stove and suffer 2nd degree burns and you don't even feel it until 10 minutes later.
5) You can fall on cement, tile, marble, and anything else hard and never hurt yourself other than bruises.
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Wow,only bruises!That's impressive!