A Not so Silent Companion?

The first day of March ~ A month of green growth, shamrocks and on March 17, 

surely there will be a leprechaun or two around.

On March 26, it will be Purple Day - for Epilepsy Awareness. So the colour of the month is also purple.

Today, for me, it has been both.

My writer’s group met here at my home today with the topic for this month ~ 'Anything Irish'. I had not a word to write about it - not that I didn’t try. Feeling pressured for a variety of reasons, in the back of my mind was - you guessed it - the epilepsy that I carry.

Now I had to think of a couple of things, besides epilepsy ~

Commitments

Enjoyment

Camaraderie

Employment

Good health

and the balance between all of these things.

When balance is, well, unbalanced, my seizure disorder can come to the fore and disrupt any and all of those things on my list. And I must keep quiet about it. Not to be secretive or ashamed or hiding ~ I just want to be normal. It’s not like having a cold or the flu. Colds and the flu come and then go and ~ then come and go, all depending on the season and the germs that float about.

Epilepsy, inside the brain, is with me all the time (which actually proves that I do have a brain). Seizures have not been with me for quite some time, merely the potential for seizures and for that I am truly, truly grateful.

Today I have been able to enjoy the news of the birth of a new grand nephew baking for and hosting the writer’s group I belong to, writing this blog, paying my bills, preparing for my work day tomorrow and even trying to figure out the electronic world and its foibles.

My good health, and my good life, depends on remembering that epilepsy is with me always and that it can become a not so silent companion.

“It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy 

balance between work and friends and family.”

~ Philip Green