Thursday, November 5, 2009
a certain event in life
As most of my friends and all of my family know, I have a slight mental problem. I have mild epilepsy. Every once in a while I start to blank out from my surroundings like a day dream and I have a minor seizure. I know when a seizure is about to come because I get a feeling that I can’t describe in words to other people. I’m the only one who can understand this strange feeling. Up until the summer before last, my family and I didn’t know what the cause of the seizures was so I was checked into a hospital in Chicago for 5 days and I stopped taking my medication to make sure a seizure would come to find out what the cause was and where it was coming from. I was put in a hospital bed with a hospital night gown and my neurologist, or brain doctor, taped 27 wires to my scalp which connected to a machine to detect which part of my brain was triggering the seizures. After a few days, I nothing happened so I had 10 more wires attached to my scalp. It was not very pleasant. I had to lie in the bed for 5 days only getting up to use the restroom. The only thing I could do was watch TV. Finally after a few days of waiting, a seizure came and that’s when my dad and I found out that there was a vein brain bleeding in my brain. I was lucky to get out of the hospital on the day that I did because it was the day before my 15th birthday. That is one experience of my life that I will not forget. But the worst part of this experience was finding out that my problem might not go away.
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