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Eplilepsy in IA....
Fri, 10/04/2013 - 07:01This is true. Seriously.
IA is a strange state. When I had first moved there, I made an appointment to see a neurologist in a city about 20 miles from my home (they do not have neurologists near me). I went to my first appointment, I told the doctor that I have epilepsy. "I don't treat epilepsy", the doctor had said. What? "I don't treat Epilepsy", the doctor had said. You have heard of it, haven't you? "Yes, of course. What do you think I am"? (No Comment). "I will refer you to the Hospital of the University of IA", he had said. So off to HUIA, finally a doctor. I was admitted, and given the usual battery of tests. "You can't possibly have epilepsy because you had graduated college", the department chairmen of epilepsy had said. He wrote that down and sent me back home. My family doctor had read his report. We both laughed at the doctor there. I had to go across the state line to find a real doctor.
If you go to college, and move to IA, you will no longer have epilepsy. No more seizures! No more meds! Wee! Wee! Don't worry. Be happy.
Re: Eplilepsy in IA....
Submitted by Robin Salmansohn on Mon, 2013-10-14 - 02:38
I had been prayed for, to remove my 'evil demons', have had the laying on of hands, anointed with holy oil, my ex had been told that she was unwelcome in their church, and had a so - called friend told me that he planned on locking me up in his closet without my meds (I called the Police).
A real winner was one day when I left an out patient occupational therapy session, I had a GM. Some people stayed there and watched me seizing. They were not there to help me, they just stared. When I came out it, one man had asked me if he could buy some of whatever it was that I was on because it looked liked like it must have been a really nice high. "Please sell me some of that", he had said.
I had been prayed for, to remove my 'evil demons', have had the laying on of hands, anointed with holy oil, my ex had been told that she was unwelcome in their church, and had a so - called friend told me that he planned on locking me up in his closet without my meds (I called the Police).
A real winner was one day when I left an out patient occupational therapy session, I had a GM. Some people stayed there and watched me seizing. They were not there to help me, they just stared. When I came out it, one man had asked me if he could buy some of whatever it was that I was on because it looked liked like it must have been a really nice high. "Please sell me some of that", he had said.