Idiopathic..

Now there's a word!

'Idiopathic': the answer. 

'What was the cause?': the question. 

Idiopathic means: no known cause.

Wonderful!

In the midst of nurses training, 

research in my text books verified my dismay ~ 

sure enough ~ no known cause.

Over the years I have wondered:

chicken pox when I was a baby?

a violent headache when I was 5?

the car accident when I was 15?

hormones?

did it run in the family?

Was it any or all of them?

Was it something totally unrelated to any of them?

Have I ever answered the question?

Nope.  

Did I have to learn to live with it?

Yup.

Was there a 

'How to Live with Epilepsy and Have a Successful Life Manual '?

Nope.

Just live your life like every one else does - but mind those annoying seizures!

“Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.”  

~ Thomas Jefferson