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everyone in your family calls the day after your neice's wedding to see if you are okay.
you just remember running in and out of the reception hall to the outside repeatedly. apparently all the while being chased down by my husband and kids.
I guess the music and then strobe lights finally got to me. and for most of my family it was their first time seeing me in action.
 
You know your an epileptic when...you wake up on the Kitchen floor looking into your husband's face.

I don't really need to ask, but I did anyways on the off chance I might be wrong. "Why am I on the floor?" One of my two boys under each arm and Hubby behind ready to catch, they helped me up to the couch first, then later up to bed. They kindly don't stare at the nice shiner forming around my left eye, since I were wearing glasses when I did the face plant. You can't tell in my profile picture, only 4 days later.
 
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The_Bob said:
...when you take your morning 1500mg dose of Keppera and you proceed to the nearest grocery store to kill a head of broccoli.
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cute - real cute
Keppra sucks big time as a pill man
help yourseves to the ones I didn't crush in my hand by accident or by pure psychic-brainpower
but it helped me stop getting my seizures...
...by giving me the feeling my back and neck were run over by a truck and by putting me into a constant seizure state
 
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JillT said:
You know your an epileptic when...you wake up on the Kitchen floor looking into your husband's face.

I don't really need to ask, but I did anyways on the off chance I might be wrong. "Why am I on the floor?" One of my two boys under each arm and Hubby behind ready to catch, they helped me up to the couch first, then later up to bed. They kindly don't stare at the nice shiner forming around my left eye, since I were wearing glasses when I did the face plant. You can't tell in my profile picture, only 4 days later.
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what a beautiful young woman!
 
your DVR gets stuck on slow-motion/sound and you've never enjoyed movies more

"Ththththhhhheeeeeeee Mmmmmmmmmaaaaaatttttttttrtrtrrrrrrrrrixssssssssssssss?
"Dooooooooooooo yyouuuuuuuuuu waaaaaaaaaaant tooooooooooooooooooo kknknknknknnnnnnoooooooooooowwwwwwwww...._whwhwhwhwhaaaaaaaaattttttt_ _ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt_ issssssssssssssssssssssss....?"


wait- THAT's the Matrix??? I've BEEN to the Matrix!
 
You know your epileptic when... your getting the cereal out at home and next thing sitting in class at school and you think "damn I missed breakfast again!"

(Yeh I couldn't remember eating breakfast, getting ready for school, walking to school or heading to class... big massive memory fail that day!)
 
when you freak out because you have lost your phone and then realize you've been holding on to it the entire time!
 
...when a good portion of life is spent trying to convince yourself you have no need to live in fear or shame, realizing that trying to convince yourself is letting fear and shame win, that thinking through this monologue is a part of the problem - and that continuing to stress about it is ceding power over to it and so I won't think about it anymor.... where am I? why are these blue people standing over me strapping me to their cart and asking me all of these things when all I need is sleep??....... why won't these strangers just let me sleep?
 
when rationalizing that instead of putting the spare change into the "money for the disabled" jar, by keeping the money you're just cutting out the middle man and doing efficiency a favor
 
When you're so worried about having a seizure during a medical procedure that you give yourself a seizure (simple partial, thank goodness! ) which causes you to freak out about the next procedure later that day. Fun!
 
petero said:
what a beautiful young woman!
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Um I've never been in any pagents. The sash designates me as a page, basically a glorified messenger. And thanks for the "Young." Many think my mom isn't old enough to be a grandma, and think my teenage boys are my brothers. (they are both taller than me and growing facial hair).
 
if you're a page, at least you're not a bookmark
well I'm 42 and last year I was ID'd to buy cigarettes... after getting the "eye" mind you, not because of clerk responsibility

good thing I can buy nuclear arms with no identification whatsoever other than a secret handshake - kidding!

JillT said:
Um I've never been in any pagents. The sash designates me as a page, basically a glorified messenger. And thanks for the "Young." Many think my mom isn't old enough to be a grandma, and think my teenage boys are my brothers. (they are both taller than me and growing facial hair).
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RunningGirl85 said:
When you're so worried about having a seizure during a medical procedure that you give yourself a seizure (simple partial, thank goodness! ) which causes you to freak out about the next procedure later that day. Fun!
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having a seizure doing a trip to the dentist or barber either. those can be a fear
even more so while having an aura while staring at a straight razor


my optometrist is a old pot head, and a really nice relaxed guy. so I dont think he cares about much of anything.
 
When your biggest concern before taking a trip is making sure you have a shortened version of your medical history in your purse and have at least 5 more days of medication than actually needed, and recheck that 5 extra days worth of medication at least 10 times before you leave.
 
You keep rediscovering this site anew because you periodically go into a cognitive spiral that takes you who knows where. Each time you tell yourself it's the last.
 
You know you have epilepsy if...

...You have been banned from every Hooters within a hundred miles of your home because of your absence seizures.
 
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