Current location:	Vancouver
Current mood:	angry
Current music:	Up Late With Stewie and Brian - MySpace.com

You have one seizure due to low blood-sugar and get diagnosed as epileptic...
What is up folks...

It has been a long time since I wrote here, and I am not sure if anyone still reads this, but nevertheless I write here because at this point I need something to be therapeutic.

Why do I say this? Well, let's see...since my last update I:

- gained a new skill at work (yay)
- am still in a wonderful amazing long-term relationship
- successfully DJ'd and MC'd my 10-year high school reunion AND

- experienced a seizure after working out at the gym and was diagnosed with epilepsy

Ok, that last one, I admit, not as cool as the others, but it happened, so it makes the list.

Yes folks, I am an epileptic. After 28 years of not having any seizures whatsoever, I lose consciousness after feeling lightheaded during my workout (I had a granola bar, a banana, and two packs of fruit snacks along with a bottle of water for lunch that day and figured I was cool to work out at the gym without any issue) and wake up being hauled into emergency and being told I suffered a seizure.

I stayed in the hospital for two days and had every possible kind of test run on me (except for an MRI which is first week of April) and find out from the neurologist that I have a small scar on my brain due to being pulled out using forceps when I was born and that is why I am an epileptic (according to the neurologist who also kindly pointed out that the right side of my brain is considerably bigger than the left side of my brain).

So, there it is. I'm an epileptic, and I can't drive to work since I have to be seizure free for six months before I can drive again. At the moment I am on short-term disability from work (who have been very cool with me and just want me to get well and get back to work whenever I can).

And that folks, sadly, is not the end of the story.

While I was in the hospital for two days, my IV was put nto my arm incorrectly and I developed an infection in my right arm (it got swollen and red and I thought it was broken), and I found out that the only way to get rid of the infection is another IV WHERE...in my left arm for five days, so I had the port and lock (the part that is in your arm that attaches to the IV) in my fucking arm for five fucking days (pardon my language).

The infection is gone though, and I meet with the neurologist tomorrow afternoon to discuss my bloodwork and how the anti-seizure drug that I now have to take for the rest of my natural life is working with my blood.

So that is my life thus far...whoop dee freakin' doo.

Anyway, thought this thing below was funny, so enjoy.

Up Late With Stewie & Brian

Have a good night folks...I'm going to go watch hockey (which the Canucks are kicking ass at right now). Thank God for small mercies.