My Epileptic Life

There are two questions I think everybody should ask themselves “Do I know what a seizure looks like?” and “do I know what to do if I see someone having a seizure?”. If you can answer yes to both of these questions give yourself a pat on the back and a gold star! Before you whip out your sticker chart, however, just ask yourself what a seizure looks like again …. If your answer is someone convulsing on the floor, step away from the stickers and carry on reading because whilst you are right you are also wrong! Did you know there are around 40 different types of seizures, many of which you can’t visibly see? Did you know that 1 in every 20 people will have a seizure at some time in their life? Did you know that there are over 600,000 people in the UK with epilepsy? Or that 87 people a day are diagnosed with the condition? You see epilepsy is far more common than you might think. The chances of you meeting someone with epilepsy and indeed needing to help them are far higher t...

Yeah the haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate ......  here’s something that really grinds my gears.. why are people so interested in other people’s lives and more specifically finding fault in other people’s lives!.  Are you really that unhappy with yourself that you feel the need to find fault with others just to make yourself feel better?.  If you don’t want to know about my epilepsy or my life or my lipstick collection or whatever else you may have taken offence to then don’t read my blog!!. Why read it if you know you’re not going to like it???? I don’t like spicy food it gives me indigestion so I don’t eat it ... I don’t chow down on an extra hot vindaloo and then moan about it afterwards. If I’m going to be daft enough to eat the food that I know is going to give me indigestion I had better drag my backside to Boots ,get myself some Rennies  and shut the heck up because it’s my own fault.  So if you don’t like what I write but choose to read it a...

Surviving family life with epilepsy  Life is busy, family life is even busier and epilepsy is time consuming. Here are my 4 top tips on how to survive family life if you have epilepsy  1 the first tip and probably the most important, at least for me, is to TAKE THE PRESSURE OFF!. Stop comparing yourself to other wives, husbands, mums, dads or whoever else you are comparing yourself to. You are an individual, your situation is unique to you and your family. So what if Suzy down the road bakes her own bread everyday and only feeds her children homegrown produce. Who really cares if Amanda from the school gates has a house that is so clean you could eat your dinner from the floor and a teenager so well behaved she forgets they are there, or if Simon the school dad volunteers for every school event, lives a vegan lifestyle and has children who are angels.  I promise you a solid 90 percent of the stuff they are telling you is lies, but more importantly why are you compa...

5 top tips for making it through life with epilepsy  In all seriousness I would never really recommend listening to my advice as I never know what I’m talking about! However if someone was going to ask me for my top tips on making it through life with epilepsy these would be the ones I would share  ALWAYS take your medication, at the right time and the right amount, even if you hate it. If you’re forgetful like me get yourself a pill box so you can clearly see if you have taken your medication that morning or whatever!! You can also set an alarm on your phone to remind you to fill the thing up every week too! Organise your life! There is nothing I love more than a good list. I have lists of work I need to do, jobs in the house I need to do, meetings, appointments. My entire life is pretty much on a list. Whether or not I actually do the things on my list is a completely different story ... but my point is the lists are there to keep me on track. I have serious memory pr...

If you enjoy the teenage boy dramas that frequent this blog then you’re going to love this. Buckle up because we are taking a journey through the mind of a 15 year old boy! Let me once again set the scene for you all. I’m sat in the office, which is right at the top of the house, when the front door opens, the dogs start barking and in comes the teenager and his friend. (I actually like this friend, he’s a nice lad with his head screwed on). I can’t tell you exactly what they were talking about because the language they were using was not English and I have no idea what a “man dem” or “fam” is … nor do I think I really want to know either!. After stomping upstairs, sounding like a small zoo, they came into the office. Being the interested, concerned parent I am I asked about their day …. And then instantly wished I hadn’t!. I swear they know more about relationships, girls, the internet and life than I do!. (Read into that what you would like… anyone with a teenage boy will know...

The doctors surgery, somewhere I regularly frequent, reminds me of wild animals round a watering hole somewhere in Africa. My visit today did nothing to change my mind.  Firstly it must have been at least 30 degrees in there!. After only five minutes in there my hamster cheeks were red and I was seriously regretting wearing UGG boots. Why do they keep it so warm in there?. Don’t germs breed in heat?. Not only that but it doesn’t do anything to help the serious body odour problem you can often find in these sorts of communal places.  So there I am sat there, slowly stripping off layers as time goes on, wondering how many layers I will be able to remove before it becomes indecent and security is called. Although the security guard (if we can call him that) can usually be found in a broom cupboard doing a crossword, so unless he had already solved 13 across I’m doubtful he would have done anything anyway. As I surveyed my surroundings I was somewhat comforted to see the stan...