I’m a vampire every year but mortality felt inappropriately close this weekend. But, before the brush with death, October was fun. It’s the best month and it didn’t disappoint. We dressed up more than we have in the past few years and that was fun. Also, Halloween seemed to go on and on because Milwaukee […]
Tag: tonic clonic seizures
The Fantastic Curse of Epilepsy
I recently had the pleasure of reading a friend’s poetry memoir regarding his experiences with epilepsy. He supplements his poetic verse with evocative photographs, and it’s creative, honest, authentic and thought-provoking. Since he’s the second person I’ve recently read about who has broken their jaw (or general “face area”) in a seizure, it made me […]
All Lab Rats Go To Heaven: An Epileptic Puts Her Foot Down
2020 has not been easy for anyone. After all, even those investors and tech CEOs who made a shit ton of money in 2020 off the public health crisis like war profiteers couldn’t just roll down to their local to get a beer or bottle of Cristal without assuming some risk. Tough times for us […]
Witnessing Tonic-Clonic, Formerly Known as Grand Mal, Seizures
There is nothing a parent can really do to stop it or make it better while a grand mal/tonic-clonic seizure is happening. But there has been progress.
Yahtzee! Finding Medication That Doesn’t Make It Worse
Society has not been kind to epileptics. Society is often a psychotic bully so it’s no surprise. In earlier times, epileptics were worshipped/feared because people thought the seizures were due to gods speaking through a human and, being human, all a human could do was seize in response. But gods didn’t want to talk to […]
ORIGINS
My unnatural development of self (“growing up”) was quite an ugly little process and it wasn’t especially smooth or quick. For example, by the time I became a high school senior I was probably equivalent to Stage IV-A[1] of Seth Brundle/Jeff Goldblum’s transformation in The Fly. But, just like Seth Brundle, I eventually figured it […]
Brain Wars!!! 