Reasonable, or Unreasonable?

Okay, so my least favorite type of seizure to have is a Grand Mal. Duh. Totally reasonable.

My second least favorite is the ones I call fiddle-head ferns. It's where my right arm curls up into a tight knot. Painful, and very difficult to hide from people. I think that is a reasonable choice for second.

Here's the quandary: does my choice for third least favorite make sense? Background -- most of my seizures either start with the right arm or the right leg. Fairly often those stay isolated on the right side, or perhaps they bring in the left leg. They can start in the left leg as well, although this happens much less frequently. 

My third least favorite, you ask? It's when my left arm seizes. Other than the Grand Mals, the left arm almost always gets a break. We must be talking over 99% of the time out of the non-GMs. But every once in a while the left arm seizes, all by itself. And not only does it hurt, it perturbs me off big time. Why? Because that's not supposed to happen! Never mind that seizures aren't supposed to happen. That one really frustrates and angers me. Is that a reasonable or unreasonable justification for it being #3 on my list?

Or is it simply unreasonable of me to have such a list in the first place?

A Day That Will Live In Infamy

 Well, it wasn't really THAT bad...

Monday, while teaching, I had a minor seizure, mostly the right leg and arm. 

But here's the thing: it lasted for almost an hour. The longest I've experienced before (not counting the diagnostic exams) were in the 20 minute range. I'm supposed to time the long ones, which is always a little tricky since I don't know they are going to be long when they start. This one was a little easier in that respect. I was showing a 58 minute compilation film of floats from Carnival in Rio. I started seizing somewhere in the first minute or two. I stopped seizing about a minute before the film ended. 

It never turned Grand Mal. It only spread to the left leg for a few minutes, twice total. Honestly, I don't think anyone noticed it. But it went on for so long. And I was still sore from it Tuesday morning. 

Here's hoping never again.

My Bad...

Yeah, I've been a bad boy. I really haven't had anything to post. Seizures are still seizures. Neural misconnects are still misconnecting. Pain still hurts. Chronic fatigue is still a syndrome. And there's still a pandemic. 

But in other news... um... yeah, that's all pretty much the same too. 

I found some ramen that has a miso based soup! There we go!

School...

 Well, school has been... interesting. Seizures are definitely on an uptick. They went crazy during standardized testing. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has also been extra challenging. And, of course, there's this pandemic thing...

Oooooph...

 Wow, I have not been a good blogger...

The summer has been fairly eventful, health wise, but I haven't said anything. Sorry. 

I've been developing arthritis in my left knee, and now it's starting in the right one. I've been developing tendonitis in my right ankle, and then the left one started catching up. And my right shoulder has something going on. It feels like the pain from when I got my vaccinations, but that doesn't make any sense, does it?

At the moment, my nervous system is telling me that I have six broken toes. Four in my left foot, two in the right. That's not unusual. The weird part is that my nervous system is telling me that I have three unbroken toes in my left foot along with the four broken ones -- and only a total of three toes in the right one. When I look at them, it's two out of five 'broken' in the left and one out of five 'broken' in the right. I think I like those numbers better, so don't be surprised if I'm staring at my feet for the next while...

Scary Headline?

 Okay, so I saw this headline as a TedTalk title: 

What investigating neural pathways can reveal about mental health

And it definitely got me thinking. Neural pathways are connected to mental health? What about those of us with neural mis-connects? Does this mean that our option for mental health is mis-connected? Is it a given that mental health is unattainable? 

Or is it just me? hehehe

Vaccination Relation?

So, it was weird... 

I had one of the seizures where my right arm locks up. It was more painful than usual, and the hand was in the claw-like position, not curled up into a ball. It was hurting for 20-30 minutes, a bit longer than usual. Then the pain drifted up my arm, and settled right about where my vaccination spot was. It stayed there for several hours, fading a little after about an hour. It's still a little sore two days later.

Told you it was weird.