I sort of "melted down" on the dog walk this morning. Usually it's a good time for a form of meditation. I mean, it was nice to see Bobby and Theo acting more like pack mates on the walk, following up each other's sniffs and  and such. But there came a point when, like the next wave on a beach, thoughts about my panic attack at the new year's ( Read more... )

Gah - that was not a good experience, and it's not the first time that's happened.

It may have been something to do with sinus troubles. It may be something to do with epilepsy, or both - I don't know. Geel very washed out and like someone's scrubbed my brain with a metal brush. A few days aago I sat down out the back with the dogs and fell asleep ( Read more... )

Guess who missed the bus again this morning (me of course)?

I needed to catch the *:47am bus from the shops in order to get into the CBD for an 11am appointment at the employment agency. I thought I left with enough time to spare, but got delayed by the woman who lives down the street wanting to know if I knew who owned a stolen dog. As I stood ( Read more... )

I found this interesting because it matched some of the experiences I've had with epilepsy (not all the time, though):


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In the past week I've been having "episodes" - periods where my ability to read/write text is impaired, I start losing facial recognition, and 3D vision goes partly to 2D. Most of the time it's been after using my computer, and looking at monitor, for any length of time. Like the migraines I had a month ago, when I started seeing a crystalline type ( Read more... )