The second way I can relate to your post is that we are dealing with short term memory issues here in the Silly household right now. I have not posted this yet because I wasn't sure how to say it, I have a trip report of our spring break in the works but it is hard to write. In short Steve (Mr. Silly) had two Grand-mal seizures over spring break. And I can tell you that I have never been so scared in my life. He has no history of this, it was the first and I hope only time.
I thought he had had a stroke, or had a tumor. Turns out neither of those things were the cause, so I feel very blessed. But the seizures messed up his short term memory and the medication they put him on has made it worse.
Sometimes it drives me crazy. In some ways it is like having another child in the house, always needing me to remind them to do things and keep track of the many appointments. Having to answer the same question over and over again, and trying not to make a big deal of it, because I know it is hard on him too. He is such an independant man. He always took care of me. It is really hard for him. We are learning to adapt. But I very much understand the little things that add up to a huge thing with the short term memory problems. So
LY/MI
For us, we hope, this is a short term problem. As of right now it does not appear to be a major health problem, and we are going to try going with out the med.s next month because he hates the way they make him feel. The doctors tell us that about 50% of the time they never find a cause for the seizures and that is good news because all the causes are pretty horrible.
They also tell us that a good 20%+ of people who have one seizure episode with no direct cause never have one again. So we are aiming to be in that group. The biggest problem we are facing right now is that he can not drive for the next 6 months, and if he has another episope then he really should not ever drive. Mrs. Silly does not like to drive. But we count our blessings, because they are many, and things could be so much worse.
My last thought about strokes, is that over the 20 years I have watched my father recover I have found that he always improves. There is no outer limit or time cut off for this. Many doctors said there was, and they are just plain wrong. The brain is an amazing thing and it does heal, slowly and maybe not perfectly, but it does. So do not let anyone get tell you that where he is now is as good as it gets.
Wow, well I didn't come on here today thinking I would talk about this.
My big news is that we (I) decided (harassed Mr. Silly until he agreed) to go back to WDW this fall! Yipee.
And in a funny way it is related to Steve's seizures because we will not go on our annual road trip to California this summer (because there is no way I can do that drive). So I will spend that budget on the WDW trip... (yeah we could have flown to California and still gone, but I would rather go to WDW
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Grammy I hope you have a good week. Give the Mr a hug from me. And please come vent here when ever you feel like it. LY/MI
