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8 minutes ago, nagachilli2 said:

She had an epileptic fit where here whole body was uncontrollably shaking and groaning, and gasping for air...Her eyes were scary, just staring into space...Then she banged her head hard on the unit by her bed...She went to the girls room as she looked scared and Anna went back with her to comfort her...

Sounds scary. It looks like she hit her head pretty hard near her eye and she was wobbly on her feet when I first tuned in. I'm glad Anna's there, she's always been pretty decent at taking care of the others.

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54 minutes ago, nagachilli2 said:

She had an epileptic fit where here whole body was uncontrollably shaking and groaning, and gasping for air...Her eyes were scary, just staring into space...Then she banged her head hard on the unit by her bed...She went to the girls room as she looked scared and Anna went back with her to comfort her...

What she had is know as a Grand Mal Seizure.  My son is an epileptic and has them occasionally.  They come from out of nowhere and it's a very scary thing to witness.  The way it was explained to my wife and I by a specialist was, when the brain waves/pulses get all out of whack it is the bodies way of putting them back in rhythm again.  He also said that when a person goes through one of those seizures, it's like a 12 round boxing match with Ali except you just take the punches for 12 rounds.  My son will be sore for a couple of days after he has a seizure.  Usually during a seizure he gets banged up pretty bad and always bites the hell out of his tongue.   Poor Nicole.....my heart goes out to you girl!!

One of my oldest brothers had Grand Mal Seizures and they got so bad that one day when he was driving home from work, in the middle of a turn he had a seizure.  He ended up in the living room of a house in his neighborhood.  After that happened he said that's it, he was going to talk to a specialist to see what could be done about it.  The specialist told him that they could admit him and run a very scary test to see if they could determine what lobe of the brain was causing his seizures.  My brother said do it.  The next day he was admitted, had 1/2" holes drilled in his skull for each lobe of his brain.  They inserted these 4 electrodes to monitor his brain function for a week and determined that it was one of the front lobes of his brain that was causing his seizures.  I can't remember if it was the left front or right front lobe but I do know that it is the lobe that controls your short term memory.  At any rate when he heard they had found which lobe of his brain was causing the seizures he asked the doctor what now.  The doctor said that they could remove that lobe of his brain and explained to him that it was going to affect his short term memory.  He said they make pens and paper for that and told the doctor to remove it.  To this day he has never had another Grand Mal Seizure but does have an absence seizure from time to time.

They can be controlled through proper diet, getting a good nights sleep, lowering your stress level, and medication.  My son takes a time release medication every morning and has been since he was 9 years old, and he hates it and I don't blame him.

I'm very sorry to hear this about Nicole.  That is one disease that nobody should ever have to have!!  Being that I don't watch the site anymore, did she go back and lay down?  My son will sleep for hours after a seizure because his whole body aches and is just plain worn out.  If any of you are in contact with Nicole, please have her lay down and go back to sleep if she hasn't already done it.

Hope you didn't bang yourself up to bad Nicole!! 

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4 minutes ago, HarleyFatboy said:

It will shake you up for sure.  Sorry you had to see that Naga!!

Thanks for that Harley, I appreciate it...She lay down with lovely Anna in her room and has composed herself...She did crack her head off the bed unit pretty hard though...

I hope your son has it under control now, it was horrible to watch, so I can imagine it worse for you, being his dad...I was on the verge of notifying RLC but it was on replay, and by the time I'd witnessed what had happened, she was in with the girls and recovering...

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1 minute ago, nagachilli2 said:

Thanks for that Harley, I appreciate it...She lay down with lovely Anna in her room and has composed herself...She did crack her head off the bed unit pretty hard though...

I hope your son has it under control now, it was horrible to watch, so I can imagine it worse for you, being his dad...I was on the verge of notifying RLC but it was on replay, and by the time I'd witnessed what had happened, she was in with the girls and recovering...

My son has it under control as long as he does everything he knows he needs to do.  He still has one occasionally and it scares the hell out of me every time.  When he has his seizures he is not breathing at all during them and he usually has frothy blood coming out of his mouth the whole time.  Toward the end of his seizures he always makes these weird sounds while he is trying to get his breath back (a very strong gasping noise).  It's really some scary shit!!  And like someone said, each persons seizure (the magnitude of it) is different.  When my son seizes, he gets straight out like a board and if a person was strong enough to pick him up by his feet during a seizure, I can promise you that he wouldn't even bend.  When my son had his first seizure, my wife and I got busy looking up material to educate ourselves with and even went to a few retreats that are only for people with Epilepsy and some of the best specialists in the country attend and set up conference times for Q&A sessions.  Very informative stuff!!

To this day if I try to text or call him and I don't get any response, that is always what I'm praying he didn't have.  He doesn't see why I get so upset because he has never seen himself have a seizure and what he goes through.  Some people....the lucky ones if you will, they actually know when they are going to seize and can prepare for it.  A friend of mine is one of the lucky ones.  When he knows he is going to have a seizure he will remove his belt and go lie down in the most open, uncluttered part of his house and wait for it to hit.  By uncluttered I mean lack of things to beat yourself up with.  One night he was driving home from a party at a friends house and he felt really strange. When he became conscious again, he had pulled off the side of the road and threw his car keys out the window and tightened his seat belt because he knew he was fixing to have a seizure.  He told me it took him damn near an hour to find his car keys after that seizure, some of the time for a short nap and the rest looking for his keys in the grass.

Is Nicole back in bed and sleeping Naga?  That is really what she should be doing if she's not.  I don't know how strong her seizure was but I'm sure it would help her out tremendously!!

 

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