My awesome week continues:
I spent all night last night in the ER after having a seizure. The last thing I remember was sometime after eleven, watching tv. I had a split second of wooziness then woke up in the ambulance.
I've had a handful, maybe six, of seizures over the last ten years, the last one being around four years ago. So it's not a serious or disruptive problem. Still, I wish I had none.
We've never been able to discover what causes them, what triggers them, which is the way these things are.
Tired. Didn't get out until around six this morning.
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
9 comments:
So sorry to hear it. I've had them on a regular basis since I was a kid, though when I'm properly medicated the chances are much less. Still, they're awful and somehow embarrassing, at least that's how they've always felt to me. (take care)
Hope you are feeling better, Paul. Perhaps it was the staccato lights from a car comercial?
im sorry paul. how scary. what a thing to have happen. glad it doesnt happen too often!!!
yours, mr smith
Glad you are home and safe. Take extra good care of yourself.
Ugh, e.r. visits suck. Sorry to hear you and your family had to endure it. I'm glad you're better.
xoxo
Ack--that's scary. Lots of good thoughts coming your way.
Loving your new photo,
Mary B.
Glad that you've completely recovered from the seizure. Take care!
How did I not know about this? You know, of course, that I'm epileptic...
It's hard, but you're strong.
Love.
Shit. Stay strong, brother man.
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