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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Comfortably Independent

I’ve been reading more blogs tonight at Epilepsy.com.  So many 

folks out there that have so many different manifestations of this 

condition!  Some concerns that many express are

- sudden lack of independence 

- losing a driver’s license

- confined to home and neighbourhood, 

- employment concerns or a lack of upward 

movement in employment, 

- learning disabilities, especially for the young, 

        despite normal or higher intelligence.

- being confronted by different attitudes that 

        shift based on types of seizures


I am so fortunate.  At different times, I have shared degrees of all of these concerns, but presently am comfortably independent, employed in a job I love and am able to learn effectively.  Any negative or judgmental attitudes of others, while they may be annoying, are in fact their attitudes.  I am more often presented with questions about my epilepsy or discussion about beliefs about epilepsy.



“Here is the rule to remember in the future 

when anything tempts you to be bitter:

not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but 

‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’”

~ Marcus Aurelius


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