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katfaerie
katfaerie

greetings and salutations

hi everyone, i'm pretty new here and i thought i'd kind of introduce myself.  i'm kat, i'm 30, a stay at home mom (zaria 4 and dax 2 1/2) and a self employed jeweler.  (i'd send you to my website, www.katfaerie.com but it's closed right now..  but i have stuff on ebay at http://ebay.stores.com/Kat-Faerie-Designs  for anyone interested in seeing some sparklies)

i have both simple and complex partial seizures with secondary generalized seizures.  i have had my seizures pretty well under control for 5 years.  since i got pregnant with my daughter and got serious (-ish) about the seriousness of my epilepsy.  and started taking my meds, lamictal 400mg everyday. 

i was diaganosed in 1997 after a grand mal, but i think that i've been having seizures for a long time but nobody knew.  my sister used to complain that i smacked my lips in the middle of the night we were kids and shared a room...  seems like a classic complex partial to me. 

i also suffer from depression and am just now really trying to reach out and find people that can understand me.  so somehow i found this site and now i really want to talk to you all and learn more about living with epilepsy.  because i've been kind of not thinking about it, feeling shameful and broken and i want to come "out of the shadows" and understand this wonderful broken brain of mine.

just reading through things on the site make me so happy and relieved that i am not alone.  people feel these bizarre things too.    

By katfaerie at Tue, 03/18/2008 - 5:59am | 74 views | 1 comments

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   Hi Kat, deleted comment from here and posted it in your TLE group. Sorry for being such an nuisance. Keep messing up but I'll find out how to do it all eventually. Beebs

 

 

beebs08

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