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November 2001
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Seizures
and the Incredible Brain
by Linda
I have had seizures since the summer I turned 18 years old. They were originally called grand mal epilepsy. My current doctor calls them non-epileptic, because the brain-wave pattern is only abnormal during the seizure. They can't performs surgery because it seems to start in one area, and then move to another. It radiates from the point it begins in, but it begins in several. He has put me in the University (of Louisville) Hospital when it seemed to be about time for another seizure to occur, taken me off medicines, and waited for a seizure with EEG wires attached to my head, a camera filming, and a sitter waiting in the room with me at all times. The brain abnormality only occurs when the seizure starts.
When my son turned 18, he began having seizures. The strange part is, we have never lived together during these seizures, but they always happen within 24 hours of each other, and sometimes they seem to have happened during the same hour. I was a math tutor for graduate students at Bellarmine College about 15 years ago, and I had students who wanted to meet with me immediately after seizures because they felt that it was easier for them to comprehend things then. After a seizure I have to have help getting to another room. I can't talk much and I can't remember anything - who people are, how to turn on water, what I'm teaching, how to flush a toilet, how to sit down - but these students felt that somehow they could understand what I was trying to teach them better then than any other time.
As doctors will admit, epileptics often report having déjà vu after seizures. This is definitely true. Doctors will admit it, but have no interest in exploring why it happens. Many, many strange things have happened during my life, but the most frightening has been during the past year. My seizures have almost stopped during this past year - one last March. (Incidentally, my son and I both got out of bed, went back to bed, woke up about an hour later and found that we had each bit our tongues and messed up the bed real bad. We live in different states, and we never tell each other until a few days later, so to make sure that we don't cause the other to have a seizure by scaring each other into it.) Well, this past year I could not seem to look at anything without the number 11 appearing. I bought a new house - 2211. We bought a piece of land without an address. When the address was assigned to it, it was 2711, although it could have been any odd number from 2701 to 2713. I became afraid to look at a number, because I knew I would see an 11. I went through it for about 6 months before I told anyone about it. Then it became almost a joke. On TV one day a couple of months ago someone on a show mentioned phenomena such as seeing a number over and over, such as 11 - that was the number used as the example. That all stopped towards the end of August. I'm not plagued with 11s anymore.
Just to add some information about me. I've had three different cancers (in later stages) at different times, and I've had some very strange things happen to help me discover it on time. I am 50, but I quit working full-time about 10 years ago, because of the seizures. I was a college instructor and a CPA. I have an MBA and doctorate. My IQ is about 165. But I can't remember the births of my children or my 10 years with my first husband. I can work math puzzles constantly and I can remember lyrics to songs that I haven't heard in 20 years, but I don't remember anything about my childhood. When I have had a seizure or seizures, I have visions of things that occur afterwards. But doctors shrug that off as normal for epileptics. Many people could testify to the truth of the things that I tell.
Well, I just had to share this with someone. The 11s have stopped, and I'm not writing to say why that happened or why they stopped. I'm writing just to say that I would love to talk with someone who has experienced things similar to what has happened to me. I have many stories that I could tell, but I won't get into that now. Some call them miracles, some call them God watching over me. My son believes their are many people who have the same things happen to them when we are having our seizures. If so, I wonder why. And I wonder what happens when the doctors finally control the seizures. My son's doctor put him on five medicines at one time about one year ago. Our seizures both have almost stopped completely, but he was living almost in a trance for most of the past year.
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