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It's interesting how life (or at the least, my body) tends to put me in my place, whether I need it or not.
Today is no exception. I was all ready to go to work this morning - had my clothes out and everything. Instead, my brain decided to go haywire on me and I had my first seizure in about 8 months. Thankfully, Kellie was around when it happened, and took care of me in between conference calls and putting out work-related fires.
Typically, I have no idea what happens when I have a seizure. I just know that I have that weird "deja-vu/funky aura/hallucination" feeling - and I'm rendered incapacitated until after I've taken a nap, and had time to recover. Kellie wrote something in her blog about what happened, and what it was like from her point of view - so I'm borrowing that and posting it here.
( A literal brain storm )
The aftermath is this: I slept until about 8:30 a.m. (the seizure happened around 7:45 a.m.), and when I woke up, I thought I'd overslept and barely recalled Kellie calling Susan (my boss) to let her know that I wouldn't be in because of the seizure, and I was going to need my rest. So, I went back to sleep until about 10:30 or 11 - stayed awake for an hour or so, then went back to sleep until almost 4 p.m.
I'd bitten the tip of my tongue - hard enough that it's bruised - during the seizure, and I have a bruise on my right shoulder from either the magazine rack or the doorknob. My head still hurts, and I'm hoping for an uneventful evening - maybe even a somewhat uneventful weekend. (Not that I don't want to go out and do the usual running - "uneventful" here means no more seizures to ruin the day!)
It's strange that I'd have a seizure - but, I did have a trigger: my period. No unusual stress levels, no sleep deprivation - just my period.
Damn body.
Today is no exception. I was all ready to go to work this morning - had my clothes out and everything. Instead, my brain decided to go haywire on me and I had my first seizure in about 8 months. Thankfully, Kellie was around when it happened, and took care of me in between conference calls and putting out work-related fires.
Typically, I have no idea what happens when I have a seizure. I just know that I have that weird "deja-vu/funky aura/hallucination" feeling - and I'm rendered incapacitated until after I've taken a nap, and had time to recover. Kellie wrote something in her blog about what happened, and what it was like from her point of view - so I'm borrowing that and posting it here.
( A literal brain storm )
The aftermath is this: I slept until about 8:30 a.m. (the seizure happened around 7:45 a.m.), and when I woke up, I thought I'd overslept and barely recalled Kellie calling Susan (my boss) to let her know that I wouldn't be in because of the seizure, and I was going to need my rest. So, I went back to sleep until about 10:30 or 11 - stayed awake for an hour or so, then went back to sleep until almost 4 p.m.
I'd bitten the tip of my tongue - hard enough that it's bruised - during the seizure, and I have a bruise on my right shoulder from either the magazine rack or the doorknob. My head still hurts, and I'm hoping for an uneventful evening - maybe even a somewhat uneventful weekend. (Not that I don't want to go out and do the usual running - "uneventful" here means no more seizures to ruin the day!)
It's strange that I'd have a seizure - but, I did have a trigger: my period. No unusual stress levels, no sleep deprivation - just my period.
Damn body.
