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The shadow of epilepsy
Before the darkness consumes my body, I start to feel sick.
I can't speak, my body goes limp
My world goes black.
It feels like I'm under attack
They make me choke
My body stiffens
As pain rushes over me.
I wake up in the kitchen floor.
My girlfriend looming over me
Tears in her eyes
"You're okay baby, you had a seizure it was bad this time"
I try to reach out,
To wipe away her tears
But its as if my body
Doesn't know how to.
I try to say I love you
But all that comes out
Is word vomit, I can't talk.
I can't walk or sit up on my own yet.
Epilepsy, is a lot like a shadow.
You can't push it away,
It will always be there attached to you.
And no matter how much you try
You cannot stop it completely.
I can't speak, my body goes limp
My world goes black.
It feels like I'm under attack
They make me choke
My body stiffens
As pain rushes over me.
I wake up in the kitchen floor.
My girlfriend looming over me
Tears in her eyes
"You're okay baby, you had a seizure it was bad this time"
I try to reach out,
To wipe away her tears
But its as if my body
Doesn't know how to.
I try to say I love you
But all that comes out
Is word vomit, I can't talk.
I can't walk or sit up on my own yet.
Epilepsy, is a lot like a shadow.
You can't push it away,
It will always be there attached to you.
And no matter how much you try
You cannot stop it completely.
Published 11th May 2017
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11th May 2017 10:55pm
That last verse is a killer, for real, and a very honest way to describe this horrible disease!
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- Edited 12th May 2017 5:01pm
12th May 2017 5:00pm
Hopefully you can discover the root cause of the attacks and reduce the amount of seizures you have.
We used to have a 135 lb German Shepherd that came down with seizures at 3 1/2 years old. Thousands of $$$ in tests and a few years gone by, we narrowed the cause down to an inability to process methionine. The seizures became fewer with a modification to his diet and drinking bottled water filtered through reverse osmosis, as we also discovered on our own that too much chloride in the city water supply negated his medication's impact.
We used to have a 135 lb German Shepherd that came down with seizures at 3 1/2 years old. Thousands of $$$ in tests and a few years gone by, we narrowed the cause down to an inability to process methionine. The seizures became fewer with a modification to his diet and drinking bottled water filtered through reverse osmosis, as we also discovered on our own that too much chloride in the city water supply negated his medication's impact.
27th Feb 2018 5:38am
