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My Life With Epilepsy or Should I Say No Life?

Thu, 11/11/2010 - 06:55
I used to have a life. A real life, even with epilepsy undiagnosed from childhood. When I started to have bigger problems than I thought I could cope with on my own, I went to the doctor for help. That was the biggest mistake in my life. The rest is history and current events. I started a blog, partly to save my own life. I think it has. I'm alive and kicking (lol, the seizures make me do that). Please read it if you want to know my story. I would love to hear from the rest of you on this site. I complain about this site a lot and many of you probably wonder why I'm here. I'm here because of all of you. Thanks and I'm looking forward to your comments. You can leave them here or on any one of my blog posts. Click on this link to leave a comment on my blog. For those of you who left comments, you can click on the same link to view my replies as you clicked to leave them or you can subscribe. Click on this link to subscribe to the comment feed. Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.

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Re: My Life With Epilepsy or Should I Say No Life?

Submitted by zealot on Thu, 2010-11-11 - 12:50
Hi Everyone, This is just a quick comment to let you all know I put up a new blog post. They are a lot of work. I spend most of my time working on the blog. Way too much time. I want you to know how much I appreciate the fact that some of you read it. It is about my life and a whole lot more. I would love it if you would leave comments on my blog. There is a big white box at the bottom after all the weird stuff at the end of the post. If you are in the blog, just click on the post title and that will bring you to the post so you can comment. Tadzio has commented and, in fact, he is now an author. Bedge also dropped me a line on one of the posts with one of her videos in it. Please join them. I look forward to seeing you all there. Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na. Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help! Please read my blog. Thanks. P.S. Please click this to read my latest post!

Re: My Life With Epilepsy or Should I Say No Life?

Submitted by zealot on Fri, 2010-11-12 - 01:16
Hi, Everyone, Thanks for reading. even if they all say "latest." That's because each post was the latest at the time the comment was posted. That's how current events become history. If you don't want to comment on the blog, you can leave me comments after the post on this forum. I would appreciate your feedback. It's kind of hard barking into the either not knowing if anyone is listening. Thanks to those who do. Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na. Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help! P.S. Please read my blog. Thanks. P.P.S. Please click here to read my latest post. P.P.P.S. This is still my latest post, but is the same as the previous comment because I have't put up a new one. I've been having a bunch of seizures and I'm not feeling too well.

Re: My Life With Epilepsy or Should I Say No Life?

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Fri, 2010-11-12 - 05:23
Hi Zealot, After the stats of job interviews, I went to the doctor for evidence. No real help, just tons of technicalities. I was close enough to UCSC and SJSU that I could continue using their libraries, until stopping driving limited me to UCSC and the local law libraries with all my lawsuits. Moving to Northern California to get by on disability better didn't help much, as now much lower housing expenses, but more extreme weather, poor public transport, and little other public resources. Least I could still get through two or more books a week before my hematoma stopped me in the middle of the Briggs' translation of "War & Peace" (still in the middle of it for 4 years now), and my reading has really slowed in everything. The internet seems to shorten a continuous reading to a few pages at most; fairly easy to find info on most everything, but nearly impossible to maintain a long chain of thought as in reading a novel. The seasons this year in Northern California have been abnormal, and this fall season seems to be dragging most everything and everyone down. I can blame my epilepsy for feeling semi-conscious most of the time now, with increasing physical weakness after the slightest activity, but many people are having the same experiences and feelings, with winter fast approaching to top off the dismal economy and "make-believe cheerful" tea parties turning everything into plunders of morale in subsistence. The painting of Balaam reminds me that I'm always going to assemble at least a 10,000 piece puzzle as something never to fully complete (for "The Twilight Zone" effect as a backup). A then fairly infrequent tonic-clonic 18 years ago messed up the Springbok 2,000 piece puzzle of Flying Hot Air Balloons just as I was down to the last few dozen pieces (I succeeded with the Springbok 2,000 piece Alpine Hamlet 20 years ago without messing it up). Lots of Love, Tadzio

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