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"When you have epilepsy life is hard!"
  by: jclover_3

When I was about 2 my mom and my dad were out with me someplace. They told me that I must have gotten overheated because they say that the next year I was diagnosed with epilepsy and that was also the year I had my first seizure. Well when I was 5 I had a allergic reaction to a medication called Tegretol and all of my hair fell out literally. It eventually grew back in but it was embarassing for me to go out in public they say. I am 14 and a few years ago when I was in math class I had a seizure. I woke up in the middle of the aisle with my coat under my head. My mom came into the room a few seconds later and I was taken to the hospital. I was in the ER when I had another seizure. I was in the hospital for 3 weeks and this was in December. And during that time period I had 36 sezures. Also during that time I had a allergic reaction to a medication called Dilatin. I swelled up and turned purple from head to toe. Now when ever I am cold I turn purple. My life has crappy from that point on. My parents worry that when ever they hear a loud noise that it is me having a seizure. So basically my life sucks.

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