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Driving with Epilepsy
Wed, 04/12/2006 - 21:55As Im sitting,thinking about my drs. visit in the morning,How can acar accident from aseizure
from 20 years ago come back and almost kill me
with abacteria infecion all over again?People if your seizures are not under control,please dont
drive.I was seizure free,never knew what nothing but little pet-mal then I had acomplex partial
one day while driving and my face had to have 9 hrs of
reconstructive surgery.and now last August,I got deathly ill from cellulitiss behind the wire that they put in my face.Now I fight to keep this bacteria out of my blood.
Terri
Comments
Re: Driving with Epilepsy
Submitted by Gina Marie on Tue, 2006-04-18 - 09:53
Hi Terri,
I'm glad your cellulitis seems to be doing better and that the doctor doesn't feel you need antibiotics at this time. Cellulitis is nasty stuff from what I've seen.
I'm not driving at the moment. When I was first diagnosed and the doctor told me not to drive I completely blew off his "advice", I figured that I had been driving for 10 years with epilepsy without knowing it was epilepsy I had so why should I stop? Then for some reason my seizures started getting worse and started happening while I was driving, nothing big but enough that I had to fight my own body just to have control of the wheel. The second time my neurologist ordered me to stop driving I listened. I hate not having that independence to just get in my car and go, but if I were to hurt someone while driving I would never forgive myself. So in the end, it'll work out. Hopefully I wont be giving my license up for the next decade.
Take care
Re: sunnflowerz - Everybody's
Submitted by sunnflowerz on Tue, 2006-04-18 - 11:04
Thank You .I will read carefully before I post and consider all of the issues in the comment.