Really, fuck this.
It has been ungodly warm thus far this month. I'm hoping for a nice stretch of cool weather for my birthday in a few weeks.
My body likes to give me birthday presents. At least, that's how I think of them. A few years ago it was kidney stones. This year, my body has gotten an early jump on things, judging by THE FUCKING SEIZURE I had Friday evening.
I've certainly never had that particular experience before, and though I don't remember one bit of it, coming around afterward wasn't particularly enjoyable. To top things off, I happened to do it right in front of the worst person possible -- my mother. I think the incident shaved a decade off her lifespan. One minute I could hear her pulling up in the drive way, the next I'm surrounded by firemen and paramedics.
The CT scan and blood work at the hospital came out fine, so they've referred me to a neurologist to do an EEG. Seizure territory is all new to me -- it doesn't run in the family normally. In fact, the only person I've ever known to have had a seizure was one of my uncles, which was caused by his alcoholism. I'm not alcoholic, so...
I did a little googling (I know, probably a bad idea), and came across a page on Crohn's Disease on epilepsy.com. Welp, I've only been diagnosed with Crohn's for a little over two years, but according to the site, "In a review of 263 patients with confirmed CD, the most common neurologic complications seen with a direct relationship to the illness included seizure, stroke, peripheral neuropathy, and myopathy, occurring in 15%." A crescent of ulcerations came up where I bit my tongue during the ordeal, but I'm not sure if that's due to Crohn's or not.
I may be flipping my blinders on here, but I prefer to think that this is just another symptom of Crohn's. I don't much care to consider what else it could be, and I think this is one instance where I'm not afraid to say that I was scared shitless. My mother was very wound up at the hospital afterward and, out of some weird curiosity for her experience, I watched a video about seizures on YouTube afterward. In a way, I really wish I'd been alone when that happened. I know rationally that seizures generally look much worse than they are, but if I'd been in my mother's shoes the other night? I don't think I'd have been much quieter about it.
My body likes to give me birthday presents. At least, that's how I think of them. A few years ago it was kidney stones. This year, my body has gotten an early jump on things, judging by THE FUCKING SEIZURE I had Friday evening.
I've certainly never had that particular experience before, and though I don't remember one bit of it, coming around afterward wasn't particularly enjoyable. To top things off, I happened to do it right in front of the worst person possible -- my mother. I think the incident shaved a decade off her lifespan. One minute I could hear her pulling up in the drive way, the next I'm surrounded by firemen and paramedics.
The CT scan and blood work at the hospital came out fine, so they've referred me to a neurologist to do an EEG. Seizure territory is all new to me -- it doesn't run in the family normally. In fact, the only person I've ever known to have had a seizure was one of my uncles, which was caused by his alcoholism. I'm not alcoholic, so...
I did a little googling (I know, probably a bad idea), and came across a page on Crohn's Disease on epilepsy.com. Welp, I've only been diagnosed with Crohn's for a little over two years, but according to the site, "In a review of 263 patients with confirmed CD, the most common neurologic complications seen with a direct relationship to the illness included seizure, stroke, peripheral neuropathy, and myopathy, occurring in 15%." A crescent of ulcerations came up where I bit my tongue during the ordeal, but I'm not sure if that's due to Crohn's or not.
I may be flipping my blinders on here, but I prefer to think that this is just another symptom of Crohn's. I don't much care to consider what else it could be, and I think this is one instance where I'm not afraid to say that I was scared shitless. My mother was very wound up at the hospital afterward and, out of some weird curiosity for her experience, I watched a video about seizures on YouTube afterward. In a way, I really wish I'd been alone when that happened. I know rationally that seizures generally look much worse than they are, but if I'd been in my mother's shoes the other night? I don't think I'd have been much quieter about it.