About seven years ago I was working for a water
supply corp. when I was “diagnosed” with epilepsy. While I was at this current
employer my duties were to read, connect, disconnect and activate new water
meters. All this was in out in the natural environment it did not matter the
weather conditions. Well in one of the hottest day of the summer I was doing my
duties when I suddenly felt sluggish and my hand began to shake ( like Tom
Hanks in the movie Saving Private Ryan) I got scared because it had never happened
to me. So I called my supervisor and told him I was feeling weird and had to
take the rest of the day. I then headed to my family Dr. they ran some tests
and told me that I was having epilepsy attacks. I began to panic and did not know
what to do as the Dr. was informing me about this disease I was not paying
attention to all he was saying. All I could think about was a childhood friend
that I had he could not play ant sports because when his body temperature would
get to a certain degree he would have these attacks and would be taken to the
hospital. After I was recommend to a
specialist they told me that I had to stay one night so that they could run
some tests on my brain to see what kind of activity was going on there. They monitored
my brain all night to see if I did have epilepsy needless to say my family Dr.
had misdiagnosed me and I had just been out in the sun to long causing similar
symptoms of that of epilepsy.
That really surprised me, on what happened to you. I know it doesn't sound like a good thing, but luckily it wasn't epilepsy. Some people who has suffered from a seizure once or maybe twice assume that they have epilepsy, when in the end, they were similar symptoms of epilepsy. I remember my mother telling me a time when I had a mini-seizure when I was just a baby, my grandpa helped by placing his finger on the bottom of my teeth so I would't bite my tongue. He also suffered from seizures as well, but they stopped when he was 60 (his medication). One of your videos showed that someone who's diagnosed with epilepsy can still live a happy life, question is can they handle it (suffering through multiple seizures almost everyday)?
ReplyDeleteI totally understand why that could have alarmed you Robert. I know when my son was 8 months he began to have seizures and he would be in the hospital for a couple of days.
ReplyDeleteIt turned out that he had febrile seizures, meaning when his temperature was to high he had these attacks. We suffered from this until my son was 2 1/2, that could of have happened to you because your temperature was too high.
The people whom do have this problem in their lives, I believe don't have a normal life because attacks can happen all the time. I agree with rubi, the person may live a happy life but are these people really living a free life?