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Epilepsy is a seizure disorder. The word does not give any clues of its cause or the severity of the disorder. Our body comes with its own electrical system called the neurolgical or nervous system. People who live in the United States take electricity for granted. A seizure can range from a simple flicker of a light to complete darkness.
Stages of simple seizures:
- aura
- deja vu
- garbled sound
- unnoticeable by people around me
- unable to verbally respond
- shake head if asked questions
- answers aret trapped in the back of my head
- slobber
- able to respond
- breathing is heavy
- embarrassment
Stages of complex partial
- All the stages of a simple or focal seizure
- Mouth movements
- Scream out
- vomit
- continue to chew
- subconsciously aware that I am in a familiar place
- Go to the bathroom while in a daze to hide
- let the toilet seat up
- urinate
- flush
- if there is a mirror, i look into it
- Look for medicine in the medicine cabinet
As early as the age of five, my first recognition was closer to a simple flicker of a light. A blank stare would manifest. Voices and sounds were familiar while having a conversation. In fact, the voices and sounds recurred over and over again. While experiencing deja vu, the sounds are garbled. If someone
It is a concept that most ten year olds in a modern society can understand. Access to electricity is taken for granted by those of us who live in the United States until it is not available.
When a child wants to unders
The key to undersatanding the diagnoses of epilepsy is that no two of us is exactly alike. After more than forty-five years of being diagnosed with epilepsy the names of the types of seizures have changed. My initial diagnosis was petit mal.
The reason why petit mal was my diagnosis was to distinguish it from grand mal. Grand mal seizures are more visible because a person often falls to the ground and shakes without the ability to respond. It is the type of seizure that is more often portrayed on television and in movies.
One of the reasons why it took so long to be diagnosed because during my puberty years, my seizures increased, because they happened mostly at night. These seizures are commonly known as nocturnal seizures. They were still petit mal, but they happened mostly at night.
Ocassionally, they would sneak into the day hours, especially during school. In fact, the first seizure that showed up was during English class. It rained that day. It was the perfect day to wear a rain coat, because during the seizure came urination. My excuse to the teacher and classmates was the wetness was from water from the raincoat. No one questioned it, much to my surprise, no one bullied me.
The nocturnal seizures continued. There is something about English class that triggered my seizures. My high school had a curriculum that is more akin to one of a college. While reading out loud
