Seizure the Day

The day has finally come and I am able to drive again!! YES, you read that right! I am once again a licensed driver!! After 4 long, long months of having everyone else drive me around, I am finally able to take myself from point A to point B without catching the bus or the sprinter and it is GLORIOUS!!


It's probably some of the best news I've had ALL YEAR and it's October... I mean the year is almost over and I can say the year hasn't been a horrible one, but this has by far been The Best news!!

So go ahead make your jokes about staying off the roads and sidewalks again because life is too grand for me to care about your negativity!! Heck I will laugh along with you!!

Like I said it has been a LONG 4 months without my license and boy it has been hard. I'm not going to lie and say it has just been the nicest piece of pie ever. If it was pie it was that pie you just can't get the knife through cleanly. Then once it is cut you can't get that stupid pie out and you almost say, "Screw it!! I don't want the pie anyway!!" I almost didn't want this pie.

In August I saw a neurologist who diagnosed me with seizures. They aren't major and honestly all I do is zone out for a bit then I'm fine, but a seizure is still a seizure medically and legally. I will be on medication the rest of my life, but I will be able to drive as long as my medication keeps my seizures under control.

For the past 2 months I have been figuring out what causes my seizures, what medications and dosages take care of those seizures, what seizures feel like, how to cope with seizures, and how to cope with not being able to drive. In all honesty the latter was the hardest.

I know that this is really just the beginning of a life-long trial that I get to take day by day, but I have learned that through it all, the seizures aren't the bad part. I know that I have been given this trial for a reason and though I do not know this reason, God does. These trials I was given are blessings, between the inability to drive and the seizures, and through them I was able to and will be able to continue to learn and grow.

I know it won't be easy just because I can now drive but I know if I take it a day at a time and be patient with this trial and myself, I will be able to learn what the Lord wants me to and get all I can out of each day.

Carpe Diem - Right? :)

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