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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 Fri, 2010-11-12 - 11:23
Tadzio, That's quite a painting, isn't it. I found it in an interesting Google image search. I love to type in crazy queries and see what they find. You'll get a kick out of my latest post. I don't think Google or TypePad will like it very much, though. Aside: To the rest of you who find this reply confusing please read the blog. Tadzio is referring to the now penultimate post. It really sucks losing what we used to have. I, too, am having increasing difficulties concentrating. I find real print easier to read than the internet, but I cannot read newspapers because I am allergic to the ink. It seems that the run-around is par for the course. No one wants to commit to anything unless it's committing a patient to inpatient or outpatient or what I call impatient mistreatment. Everyone wants money, power, authority, etc., but no one wants the responsibilities that come with them. Oh well. C'est la vie. I am a jigsaw fan as well. I think that Jersey Shore University Hospital must have a problem with them. They have a zillion of them for patients to do, but when I was in my room doing one, they came in and shot me up with Chlorpromazine, which is part of the reason I am having such a problem now. That brand new dent in the middle of my forehead thing. I wonder if I had a subdural hematoma. It could explain why I started to tank so quickly. Maybe that's why they have them. They love to drug patients. There logic is since you are in a psych hospital we have to drug you. Never mind the fact that I should not have been in a psych hospital and never mind the fact that it is a fallacious argument. Or should I say phallusious. (The pun is from phallusy. The "u" is a schwa like the "a" in fallacy.) I'm just getting silly now. I'm half brain dead from seizures and lack of sleep. I go to court with the Taffy Motel Absecon City New Jersy Dump folks in Atlantic City on 19 November. It better be in the morning because I don't want to have to travel on Shabbos. It's gonna cost me $40 in cab rides to get there and back. I thought I would come to New Jersey for the same reason you moved to Northern California. It was a big mistake. I am so broke because of having to live this hand to mouth existence. I am hemorrhaging money. Verizon Wireless account reps lied to me when I tried to get connectivity for my netbook and told me I didn't have a data line. I pay $70 a month for it and could have tethered to it. I couldn't access my online account, which is how they got away with it. So I was forced to add another line and my last phone bill was almost $280 dollars. I though I was adding about $60 or $70 to my $150 bill which would have put it at $210 to $220. Maybe it's because it's the first month and they get you with the pro rata. Still, I can't afford the extra $60. I'm going to have to suspend my MediGap for awhile. I think I'm going to start using a different editor for my posts like I used to. The Rich Text editor isn't working anymore for me. Maybe that's because I bagged IE for Chrome. IE sucks. Maybe I'll check out FireFox, but Chrome is pretty nice. I like Mozilla better than Google though. Google are gonna kill me now. Sorry for the disconnected hyergraphic ramblings. I had a whole bunch of seizures in the past two or three days, some I only knew about because I woke up with sore muscles from thrashing. I've been more careful and haven't gotten any new osteomas on my head. I kind of use the covers as a "mummy" sleeping bag. It seems to work. Thanks for writing. Your category and your blog post got some hits. I saved the ones I could find in the last typelist on my about page. I don't know if you'll be able to find them because there are hundreds and if you don't know what the search was you won't find it. If you can see the stats, you'll be able to find the page hit with the referral info. It's only online for 24 hours. 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.

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

Submitted by zealot on Tue, 2010-11-16 - 06:51
Tadzio, One of your comments to the blog ended up in the spam folder. I just published it and replied. You can read it on the blog. It is a good comment. I stopped posting on the marijunana forum. I'm sick and tired of half a dozen notifications for every one of the little birdie's comments. Tweet! Tweet! Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na. Lots of Love, 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.

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

Submitted by zealot on Fri, 2010-11-12 - 11:20
Hello Everyone, I just put up a brand new post. Thanks for your interest. I tried to make it easier to leave a comment. 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.

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