I feel for you, too, Rebecca!
I was in the same position, albeit fairly briefly, when I was pregnant with my son. I had a sz a week after learning I was preg, and per VA law (where I was at the time), I had to stop driving for six months. That was hard enough, but then my idiot neuro (whom I fired after my son was born) kept clamoring that I needed to see him. Finally, I screamed, "You're insistent that I not drive. No one else can take me, and you're two miles of busy streets from where I live. Just how am I supposed to see you?" Only then did it sink in what a moron he was. He asked me to keep him informed over the phone and see him in six months when I could drive again. Then I dumped him and never saw another neuro. Thank God, my neurosurgeon, who has known me all my life, manages all things brain for me.
LIZ :)
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Rebecca <par_thomas@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Rebecca <par_thomas@yahoo.com>
Subject: [epilepsy] Driving
To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010, 4:19 PM
Whenever I hear about people driving with seizures I think Jealous. I know I am. I am a mother of 2 children that should be in preschool and I cannot drive them. I have to depend on people to purchase regular daily groceries, and household items. If we are out than too bad. My son will tell me he is bored and wants to go somewhere and I cannot take him. Doctors appointments, I am sure you can imagine, are hell. I do not understand why some people with epilepsy and reoccurring seizures get to drive and others get their license taken. I have been without driving privileges for 2 years now and I would give anything to get to the store and buy my own milk.
Rebecca
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