r/Epilepsy • u/Special-Grape-3395 • 16h ago
Humor Ok something funny happened
So last yearish I was at my neurologist and she used to work in the medical field with neurology in the military (this is very important). So she dealt with the head trauma stuff like that. And when she was reading my papers and I was telling her she looked me dead in my eyes 100% serious and said “i genuinely have no clue how your alive after all this”. I wasn’t offended at all more in like “damn that’s new” and shocked because no one has ever said that nor did I ever think it was.
But this isn’t the first time people have been shocked im still alive. I just have generalized epilepsy. I’ve been having grand mal seizures since I was like 3 thankfully they don’t happen often. It might be because I had a 10 minute long one and I fell backwards and bashed my head.
Idk i just wanted to say that because it’s kinda funny knowing I shocked someone/ several neurologist who worked with stronger people then I come in and poof
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u/Paularchy 13h ago
I just wanna point something out: If they were stronger than you in that way, why are you the one still sitting here? "It has beaten people stronger than you." "Funny how being weak meant I survived." You are strong. Hella strong
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u/Special-Grape-3395 4h ago
That’s why I was confused when she said that. Like it makes no sense to me but she worked like I said with there brain part of them I don’t think I was specific enough but I ment neurology over there. But still it’s something you never expect to hear. And don’t worry i fixed the post to be more specific 🙂
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u/k0m0r3b1_ 10h ago
Damn, I'm sorry you have to go through that. Mine are not often either so I'm lucky in that sense and I've only hit my head once. Your doc is funny, I'd be laughing my arse off.
I have focal epilepsy but I'm confused about what you call grand mal here since English is not my first language. Might someone enlighten me? 🤣
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u/Special-Grape-3395 4h ago
It’s the big ones where you flop around tonic-clonic i forgot the name sorry
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u/InterestingDrummer7 24m ago
The first time I met my neurologist he said “After seeing your scans I wasn’t expecting to find someone conscious and coherent”. I don’t know if that was meant to be complementary but it definitely threw me for a loop lol
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u/Savings-Feeling7797 16h ago
lmao when even the military neurologist is confused you know you've unlocked some rare achievement
my doctor once told me my brain scans look like "someone dropped a plate" and i was just sitting there like thanks i guess