My Epileptic Life

365 Seizure Free:  Morning routine of an epileptic   5 days down, 360 to go.    First, let me start by saying the summer holidays are far from relaxing! Feel like I have been eaten out of house and home and when the husband is at work the only conversations I have are “what’s for dinner” and “what’s for tea”. Roll on September so I can go back to work and reclaim a scrap of sanity.    OK, now on to the good stuff. The seizure free days. Days 4 and 5 have passed without so much as a sniff of a seizure, thank goodness, however, it has not all been plain sailing. I have had a painful headache both days and have been exhausted. I don’t know if it is the epilepsy headache that has made me feel so tired or if it is my brain working hard to keep me seizure free, regardless of the cause I have been so tired and as a result have completed nothing on my list of jobs for the week, apart from taking naps. I have totally managed to complete that task....

“when life gives you lemons … throw them back twice as hard”    Life has not only given me lemons this past week, it has thrown them at me by the bucketful. At the start of the summer holidays, a new seizure free challenge had not been on my list of must dos. As of this week, however, it has become the biggest must do. Not just for the summer but for the next 365 days.    A year seems like a long time and when you are waiting to be seizure free it feels like an eternity. When you stand at the beginning of the seizure free race track it appears to go on forever, up steep hills, across raging rivers and over miles and miles of uneven ground. Taking the first few steps is terrifying. It is like stepping into the unknown but to get yourself back to some sort of normal reality you must complete the race.    On Saturday I took my first steps onto the track. Bambi like steps but steps non the less. If I said I am not annoyed by the situation or despe...