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How Do You Deal With The Anniversary Of Your Diagnosis?
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On the 31st October 2007 at the age of 27 I had my first seizure. I am a registered nurse and I was at work at the time. I had multiple absence seizures throughout the morning of the shift and then a tonic clinic seizure at midday, got rushed to Emergency, had another one about an hour later and then another at 3pm and went into status epilepticus. I ended up intubated for 18hrs then in hospital for a week with ataxia, swallowing issues (from the intubation) and memory problems. It… read more

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Gosh do I remember the day of surgery which consequently caused seizure 6days later. 3rd of May 2011. I am a neurosurgical RN and was a pt on my ward

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