Day to day
Step by step
Think im ok
Brain feels if
Start out slow
Where am I
Dark encircles
Optics blinded
Consciousness
No longer
Wake up
Wake up
Crack your eyelids
White just white
Damage unearthed
Smash!
There’s the hole
Day to day
Step by step
Think im ok
Brain feels if
Start out slow
Where am I
Dark encircles
Optics blinded
Consciousness
No longer
Wake up
Wake up
Crack your eyelids
White just white
Damage unearthed
Smash!
There’s the hole
These terms are most commonly heard when classifying seizures. However, a new article has been released that reclassifies seizure types based on the beginning of the seizure, level of awareness, and whether movement happens during the event.
“Partial seizures” and “generalized seizures” along with their subsets have been used for over thirty-five years, but have not captured many types of seizures. The hope is that the new 2017 classification system will.
Let’s take a look at this new system. According to the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), the world’s main scientific body devoted to the study of epilepsy, The new seizure classification breaks down the type by generally using a 3 step process. However, they do have an expanded system, but for now let’s look at the simple classification:
You can use these three steps or you can check out the ILAE website for the article and expanded classification which is shown below:
~Siren Cay
Where am I? This obscure darkness is clouding any glimmer of light.
Have I perished? Is this my eternal damnation?
My mortal frame will not shift. My limbs are frozen as if I were a cement statue on display for anyone to glare and snicker.
I no longer feel agony, merriment, or even irritation. My physical form has become a ghost, a hallow shell that harbors my beating heart.
Wait. Is my heart beating? I no longer can comprehend.
What if the end isn’t near? How will I be freed from these shadows?
Is solidarity eminent? I can’t end like…
The excerpt above is written from a thought perspective.
Like many people in the world, I am a person who has a seizure disorder. I was diagnosed with Epilepsy when I was a little girl, and have lived with it for over twenty years. In most recent years, it has actually become more difficult.
Written above is what comes to mind when I think about what happens. Even though I am unconscious when I have a seizure, I wake up feeling disoriented. Usually, I have the feeling of “If I did not come out of that, I could have died”. Not being able to utilize my motor skills is terrifying, discouraging, distressing, and tiresome. Above are my thoughts on what I believe I would contemplate in my own consciousness during a seizure.
Click here for more information on seizure types and ways to help people with Epilepsy!
Hope you enjoy it, and thanks so much to all those who read my blog posts!!
~SirenCay