complex partial seizure
Oct. 28th, 2006 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefoxI'm trying to write this down before I forget; my left hand is still clenching...
Probably around 10:15 or so... I was at my laptop, reading personal accounts from epileptics on the "stories" page of epilepsy.com; I was also watching TV. "The Exorcist" was playing. I started feeling vague, distant, chilled. And then my body jerked backwards, my head whipped forward and down to the left, and my arms flew up and my left hand clenched. I vaguely remember sort of tilting violently off the left arm off my chair, straining my neck. Then I jerked back up and the sensations of numbness, disorientation, extreme cold, and weakness flooded through me. My stomach hurt. I felt the kind of nausea one might get from being in a fast elevator. I was in a fast elevator. The world rushing past. I sat there with my head in my hands, trying to regain my bearings. I wanted to cry. I felt scared. I knew I was shaking. Eventually I got up and took my cup of milk, half empty, and stumbled into the kitchen to spill it out. Jason and Bex were carving pumpkins and Adam was watching. I don't remember if anyone spoke to me. I went back to the living room and curled up on the smaller couch. The movie was still playing; I watched as the priest took the demon from Regan into himself, and threw himself out the window. Regan was sobbing in the corner. I got up, went back to the kitchen, and asked Adam to come into the living room with me. We sat on the couch and I asked him to hold me. He asked if I was okay. I told him I'd had a seizure and I needed someone to just hold me. We stayed like that for a while; he rubbed my back and kissed me. We went into the kitchen and he opened the fridge to show me his tomato jack o'lantern. I was still feeling disoriented, and I was twitching and feeling a tingling, crawling sensation everywhere. Now, I'm tired, and still very cold. Sometimes seizures will screw with my body temperature. My ankles hurt. My stomach hurts. I've been limping. My teeth are chattering. I have a terrible headache. The left side of my neck hurts the most. I want orange juice, but we don't have any. I kind of want bacon, but I don't have the energy to go through the process of taking strips out of the package, putting them on a plate, and putting the plate in the microwave. It seems much too difficult and too extreme. I may ask Adam to do it for me.
Now the TV is showing "The Exorcist II."
Probably around 10:15 or so... I was at my laptop, reading personal accounts from epileptics on the "stories" page of epilepsy.com; I was also watching TV. "The Exorcist" was playing. I started feeling vague, distant, chilled. And then my body jerked backwards, my head whipped forward and down to the left, and my arms flew up and my left hand clenched. I vaguely remember sort of tilting violently off the left arm off my chair, straining my neck. Then I jerked back up and the sensations of numbness, disorientation, extreme cold, and weakness flooded through me. My stomach hurt. I felt the kind of nausea one might get from being in a fast elevator. I was in a fast elevator. The world rushing past. I sat there with my head in my hands, trying to regain my bearings. I wanted to cry. I felt scared. I knew I was shaking. Eventually I got up and took my cup of milk, half empty, and stumbled into the kitchen to spill it out. Jason and Bex were carving pumpkins and Adam was watching. I don't remember if anyone spoke to me. I went back to the living room and curled up on the smaller couch. The movie was still playing; I watched as the priest took the demon from Regan into himself, and threw himself out the window. Regan was sobbing in the corner. I got up, went back to the kitchen, and asked Adam to come into the living room with me. We sat on the couch and I asked him to hold me. He asked if I was okay. I told him I'd had a seizure and I needed someone to just hold me. We stayed like that for a while; he rubbed my back and kissed me. We went into the kitchen and he opened the fridge to show me his tomato jack o'lantern. I was still feeling disoriented, and I was twitching and feeling a tingling, crawling sensation everywhere. Now, I'm tired, and still very cold. Sometimes seizures will screw with my body temperature. My ankles hurt. My stomach hurts. I've been limping. My teeth are chattering. I have a terrible headache. The left side of my neck hurts the most. I want orange juice, but we don't have any. I kind of want bacon, but I don't have the energy to go through the process of taking strips out of the package, putting them on a plate, and putting the plate in the microwave. It seems much too difficult and too extreme. I may ask Adam to do it for me.
Now the TV is showing "The Exorcist II."
