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My Epilepsy Story - Series of Attacks (part 2)

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Seizure Attacks Couple of years ago I kept a seizure log in my mobile phone but unfortunately my phone got stolen and I lost track ( I forgot to create a cloud backup - teehee ).  To give a context on my Seizure attacks they started months after being discharged from the hospital. I reported back to work after a month of rest - that is July 2014, and went back in doing my normal routine or lifestyle. But there were funny moments where names and faces do not exactly match in my mind. I got saved from humiliating myself not calling them different names seeing everybody wearing name plates/tags in the Hotel where I work. They were all so happy seeing me, asking all sorts of questions like how it happened, what did I feel, was I in a comatose, etc. It was just happy seeing them and being well received by all of them. I am also blessed by God giving me the 'aura'. What's that?! Aura is a sensation I feel warning me that a seizure is rising and will happen. The specific aura that

My Epilepsy Story - Incident & Hospitalization (part 1)

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I am a Person with Disability. Categorized under the Psychosocial group - a misunderstood areas of disability. I had a head injury leading to severe bleeding in my brain and in the process of healing I experience seizures or epileptic attacks.  Nothing is stopping me to continue living normally and continue doing what I did before the incident. My Epilepsy Story begins here.  April 27, 2014 - Sunday Opening of the village's basketball tournament. We are playing first and we were warming up shooting and doing layups. When the game is about to start, I clearly remember greeting and talking to the referees requesting to make good calls during the game. Then it happened. I lost consciousness. IT Months later, after being hospitalized and now recovering. I asked my basketball teammates what really happened to me. This will sound really funny. I got injured during tip-off or jump ball. This is the start or the game. Immediately, I said "Ako lang ata sa buong mundo ang na-injure sa