Jun 08, 2006 16:33
i'm five hours into my summer vacation and i already don't know what to do with myself, ha. i do know that it's great laying down to take a nap and not waking up ten minutes later because i have to study for something that i forgot about.
new york city tomorrow! i haven't been there in over two years.
when the doctor was talking to my brother and parents yesterday i left the room because i thought my bladder was going to rupture. my mom told me earlier that while i was gone lilik explained that based upon the eeg results, my brother takes approximately THIRTY petit-mal seizures per day and has been for some time. no one in my family has ever noticed but considering the fact that a petit-mal is a brief lapse of consciousness lasting for only a couple of seconds i don't know how we could have. they are the oddest seizures. one minute you're doing something, you stop doing it for literally one to twenty seconds and then pick up wherever you left off with no recollection of what just happened. he had so many of them three weeks ago in such a short frame and that's what caused the grand-mal. the good news: 2/3 of individuals just simply outgrow them. the bad news: it's considered mild epilepsy. the department of motor vehicles was notified because he's not allowed to drive, he can't play a sport of any type, he can't exert himself too much. he has to have blood work done at the beginning of every month and an eeg every other. he's on depakote and has to take folic acid and calcium pills every day for the next two years and nine months. oy.
alright, back to pretending i have something to do.