Need to laugh...

To everyone who reads this, I need to hear some good stories! Tell me the funniest/craziest thing that ever happened to you during (or as a result of) a seizure. We've got to laugh about it sometimes or we'll all go mad.

I'm truly sorry. I honestly didn't mean to offend anyone! I just find it easier to get by If I can laugh about it later (in some cases) or I'll be miserable forever. For instance, just yesterday as I was having a CP. When I started to come around, my 2yr. old daughter was hitting my knees saying, "Mommy! Your broken! Mommy are you broken?!" At the moment it was very upsetting but later I found it funny and sweet. If I dwell on the sadness of it all I'm in constant depression. I guess I'm just a different kind of person. I'm really sorry and if this offends anyone else, I honestly didn't mean for it to.
Forgive me.

I agree with Mollymom about laughing. If you don't laugh about life and events in life, you will go absolutely insane. If you look hard enough, you can always find the good in everything.

I do not feel that laughing at life is showing "ignorance" at all!

Okay, obviously you guys can't even forgive me for offending. I understand Jennifer's offense. I can't imagine ever losing my own child. Do you have it yourself Jennifer? Are those of you offended constantly depressed?
Thanks Uhura and Pushee for some understanding.

I don't have good stories of overcoming issues. I guess it's the only other way for me to deal. Kind of like how "stupid" my AED's have made me. I have to joke about it sometimes. Thank you Daisy for your honesty.

That is good you have somewhere else to go.
We all use different forums.
Thanks for sharing

I have only been a member of this group for a few days. I have read the members postings and replys faithfully since joing. I too do not think that sizures are anything to laugh about. We also need to be able to cope with the hand we have been dealt. Before I continue I would like to share a little of my story just as RickyB has done.

I had worked for NH state parks for 40 years in 2002 when I had my first seizure. Much of my time was spent out doors on lakes, or mountain summits and at times in wonderful historic sites. Just imagine being able to sit down and do your office work and look off for a hundred miles or more from a mountain summit. I loved the times I spent with park guests pointing out distant peaks or showing them how to start a campfire. In 2002 I was a regional supervisor and was responsible for state parks in about one quarter of the state. I had to drive to do my job.

In NH you must be sizure free for one year before being able to drive, however a doctor may give permission to drive earlier. I was theraputic soon after starting dilantin and my doctor allowed me to drive begining June 1 2003. There were no incidents that summer but in November almost one year to the day I had a second siezure and have not driven since. That ment I would no longer be able to be a regional supervisor. State parks must have valued me because they made me supervisor of historic sites, which was a position that had not existed previously. As much as I like the outdoors I am also a fanatic about NH history. Needles to say I was pleased. During May last year the parks administration and I realized that I could not carry out the responsibilites of the new job primarily because I couldn't drive. I decided to retire. Parks told me that they were not ready for me to leave completely and asked me to work on special projects from my home and at park headquarters from time to time. This made my decision to retire much easier. I retired but continued work where and when I could.

I have had two seizures at park headquarters. They have made the staff there uncomfortable. This is something I do not want and I in turn have become uncomfortable being the foculs of their daily concerns. At times I feel that they are being overprotective of me. I have talked with all of them about my illness and that I appreciated their concerns.

I have needs to cope with the hand that has been dealt to me. At times my perspective will bring a smile to my face not because there is someting funny about siezures but because there is some irony that I have seen . I will share one. Prior to my first seizure I was one of two National Safety Council defensive driving instructors for parks. The course is exclusively classroom i.e. nothing behind the wheel. I smile each time I think that one of my special projects is to continue to teach defensive driving despite not being able to drive.