Okay, so Omar has epilepsy.
What kind of epilepsy?
And he claims he has the same spells I do when he drives?
How is Omar being treated?
----- Original Message -----
From: Geraldina Dorcante
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [epilepsy] What Is Happening To Me?
No omar is the one with epilepsy we come on here
together and he answers from time to time. But he has
never told any of the doctors he just figured he's a
weird person. He reactioned when you wrote your post,
we are gonna be telling the doctor also
--- LtPat228 <ltpat228@comcast.
> Well WHAT are Docs saying is happening with you,
> Geraldine???
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Geraldina Dorcante
> To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 10:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [epilepsy] What Is Happening To Me?
>
>
>
> that happens to me alot. Especially when i am
> driving..i go blank and sometimes have no clue
> where I
> am even if i have been there a hundred times. Once
> i
> was coming home from downtown and all of a sudden
> i
> was getting off an exit towards the airport and I
> went
> completely blank. I didnt even know where I was
> going
> and then short while later my memory came back.
> And
> then few min. later it happened again when I took
> another exit. And then i recovered and was like oh
> Im
> going to my house.
> --- pat040394 <ltpat228@comcast.
>
> > About 3 months ago I was driving at night en
> route
> > to pick up my
> > brother.
> > I was on a familiar major highway for a little
> while
> > then got off at
> > the usual exit...when all of a sudden I didn't
> know
> > where I was nor
> > where I was headed. There were lots of bright
> lights
> > from gas
> > stations and restaurants and I didn't feel
> panicky -
> > almost surreal
> > as if I was watching a movie.
> > I knew I was on that road for a reason and maybe
> 45
> > seconds later I
> > remembered I was going to get my brother. I got
> him
> > just fine yet on
> > the ride home, I got off at another well known
> exit
> > and soon as I
> > entered the brightly lit street, poof, again my
> mind
> > went blank.
> >
> > I was too embarrassed and mortified to tell any
> one
> > and waited 10
> > days and finally made an appt with
> > my Neurologist who ordered an EEG which returned
> > normal.
> >
> > Now 2 nights ago after spending an evening
> inside
> > Chuck E Cheese's
> > with my 8-1/2 year old grandson...soon after I
> > pulled out on to the
> > big road with all the lights, I flat out did not
> > know why I was there
> > nor where I was going.
> > I will say I felt VERY disconcerted that my
> grandson
> > was in the car
> > and I'm zoning out! I kept my hand on his knee
> for
> > comfort [he didn't
> > know what was happening] - and within 25 seconds
> I
> > managed to
> > understand where I was by seeing familiar stores
> and
> > got us home
> > safely.
> > During this 3rd episode I felt as if the road
> was
> > heading
> > upwards...you know, like I was slowly traveling
> up a
> > hill? And I live
> > in South Florida where there aren't even tall
> ant
> > mounds - ha ha!
> >
> > I just don't get it!
> >
> > No headaches, no recent new meds at all with
> these
> > incidences.
> >
> > I have perused the Internet and see where I
> > definitely relate to
> > deja vu, not so much with these episodes, yet my
> > entire life in
> > general, ever since I was a young child.
> > Baffling.
> >
> >
> >
>
> A WORD TO THE WISE:
>
> Every step u take in life, just remeber were u
> started cause if life ever throws u back to the
> begining you know which steps to take and which ones
> to avoid.
> Love Geri
>
>
>
>
>
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> removed]
>
>
A WORD TO THE WISE:
Every step u take in life, just remeber were u started cause if life ever throws u back to the begining you know which steps to take and which ones to avoid.
Love Geri
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