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Date:
10/13/2014 6:45:02 PM
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RE: Condition of muppet
A week ago last Saturday, after 23 years of absolutely no seizures (had them as a kid a few times), I had 3 grand mal seizures right in a row as I was waking up from sleep around 7 AM. My wife didn't wake up right away, so I nearly bit my own tongue off while convulsing.
Because of my Crohn's, I have osteoporosis, so the force of the convulsions was enough to cause (or exacerbate, not sure which) 3-5 compression fractures in my spine between t12 and t14.
The pain was pretty fantastic at first, but it's actually almost gone now. I have a lot of weakness in my back and it's hard to carry anything heavier than a medium sized book.
So... that was weird. I'm on Keppra (sp?) now to prevent another episode, which is bumming me out because it's very sedative and makes me pretty bummed. Also, the near-death experience has caused me to have a little too much perspective on my pathetic job and infantile coworkers, so going back to work has been rough. I want to make some major changes which may involve selling our house and moving to another state. We're working on it since my wife wants to move, too. We've talked about it before.
It's probably stress from BoA basically threatening to foreclose on our house over $150 and refusing to let me simply catch up the payments that were short due to a clerical error they let run for 10 months without saying anything. Good times.
Anyway, I'm OK, just pretty rattled and feeling some unwelcome enlightenment re: my life that I haven't been proactive enough about fixing. Also, I'd really rather not take anti-convulsants when I had a two decade seizure-free period without them (well, unless you count my 3-4 cardiac arrests last December that were never diagnosed.)
I'm walking with a totally gay looking stained walking staff with a bear's head carved into it, because it was cheap on Amazon and it beats the fuck out of the collapsible DME-grade cane I was using from the hospital.
