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Driving and epilepsy

Fri, 01/20/2006 - 12:56
E-mail: staceychil@aol.com Website: http://www.authorsden.com/staceydchillemi Website: http://www.inspirationallivingonline.com website://pro-writer.com My Love for Shopping I slowly turn my head to glare out the window and stare forward into the perfection the horizons beauty. We all focus our means of salvation to a personal enjoyment one that cannot be taken away from us. Unfortunately as people, we do not carry ultimate perfection. We all carry with us some types of flaws, but to live positively in a society of imperfection we must focus on things we enjoy to overlook and discard our inner and outward flaws. Therefore, I use shopping as my means of therapy, one personal enjoyment that is my enjoyment of shopping. When I was five, I came down with encephalitis, which had traveled to my brain and caused me to develop epilepsy. At eighteen, I was issued a license and I drove for a while. I shopped with my friends. We shopped until we dropped and enjoyed the precious moments of our friendship. At nineteen, I was driving with my boyfriend at the time who now is my husband and we were traveling on a country road in New Jersey. I was driving and suddenly I went into a seizure. My muscles tighten, my arms curved to the left and my foot went all the way down on the gas pedal. Our future together flashed before us. The car headed straight toward the telephone poll. My husband said, fighting me for the wheel was worse than fighting a boxer or wrestler. I had no control, because I was still in the seizure. My husband finally, obtained control over the car. He was able to steer the car away from the pole. An angel was watching and spared us our lives, but my license was revoked and my days at the mall declined. What was I to do? My therapy, my means of enjoyment, spending hours at the mall, fantasizing, laughing, it was all gone. Many replied you should be lucky you are alive and I was but I had a love, a passion, an escape and that was shopping. It is not the same when you can hop in the car and go to the mall for as long as want, my life was limited and I was on other people’s schedule. So, what did I do? I did fall in a small hole and became sadden by the uncontrollable limitations that were put on me with out my consent. I thought and said to myself, I am the one who always advise other’s now I have to take my own advice. So I developed a new way to shop. I put some soft relaxing music on, created a victorian room, bought a computer and became an internet shopaholic. It works for me and makes me happy. I obtain my sense a relaxation from the environment surrounds me. I use the technology of today’s internet world to purchase my products and I use my husband’s credit card to pay for them! My neighbor asked me are you having an affair with the UPS man. He is at you house almost everyday! The end. www.inspirationallivingonline.com

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Re: Driving and epilepsy

Submitted by txrhb1 on Sat, 2006-01-21 - 00:48
You go Girl !!! LOL - my favorite thing to do is shop on the internet - gotta love it (and eBay) !!! ((( hugs ))), Barbie *************************************** "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other." -lucian de crescenzo

Re: Re: Driving and epilepsy

Submitted by kferguson on Sat, 2006-01-21 - 11:31
I too had a seizure while driving. I was in a parking lot and took out 3 cars and a fire hydrant. My guardian angel was with me that day also. I didn't hurt myself (air bag) or anyone else. My question is, why can't you drive? My license was taken from me too, but only for about 2 months until my Dilantin level was stabilized. I was also monitored by the DMV for a couple of years, but I haven't even heard from them in about 6 years, and have renewed my license with no troule. Why can't you drive?

Re: Re: Re: Driving and epilepsy

Submitted by txrhb1 on Sun, 2006-01-22 - 09:07
Hi, Although I have never had an accident due to a seizure, you have to be seizure free for at least 6 months here in Texas, in order to drive. Although the doctors are not required to report you to the DMV, I haven't driven in 2 years because my seizures have not been under complete control for more than 4 months. I think all states have different laws on driving and seizures. Best wishes, Barbie *************************************** "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other." -lucian de crescenzo

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