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New Girl!
Sat, 01/27/2007 - 15:35Hi!
Just joined this evening, I'm afraid I'm not the one with epilepsy but I really want to understand what my partner's going through and thought talking to other people might help.
I really want to be helpful and supportive but I feel like I'm making it worse. We have a young son and I'm really reluctant to leave them alone which makes me feel evil but I'd never forgive myself if anything happened to either of them and I know he'd never forgive himself if his epilepsy caused him to hurt our son. Am I doing the right thing or should I leave it in the hands of the gods??? If we both had epilepsy then we'd just have to manage.
I find it really hard to understand some things, I found him unconcscoius the other day and had no idea how long he was under for - it was at least 15 mins so I called an ambulance then he had a strop cos he didn't see the fuss... was I over reacting???
I really want to make it better for him but I fear I make it worse!!! Any advice for a struggling partner?