Epilepsy

Right, well, in short...Epilepsy sucks.

I figured I needed to make my first blog about something fairly rant-worthy, (And, don't worry, this isn't the first of post after post of me moaning about crap parts of my life, posting it on the internet, and then hoping for sympathetic, like-minded people to comment.)

So, I'm Epileptic, and yes, it does suck. But not for the obvious reasons.
I get the occasional day dreamy-seizure-things, and I get the proper ones while I sleep. But after being poked, and prodded, and generally assessed by a couple of doctors, one specialist guy puts me on various kinds of medication in order to try and stop them for (another) year. And hopefully it's doing the trick.

But that's not the really awful thing I've found about it. My personal downfall of the condition, has been the inability to drive.
Seriously. What the hell? There's probably thousands of people out there - mainly in their teens from what I've gathered - who are unable to drive, all because of Epilepsy?
I don't think I realised what a massive independance driving gave me until I lost it, and I'm by far not the only one.


And whilst I have to see people on the road all day every day who are clearly far unsafer to drive than myself, that just adds salt to the wound.
So I guess what I'm saying is don't take driving for granted, I can't abide people who 'hate driving' or feel the need to constantly insult the art of driving. I'll gladly hop behind the wheel for them, as I'm now in my second forced year of no driving, which I suspect might turn out even longer...

-Oh, and feel free to stop and give me a lift if you see me walking home in the rain?


(And fear not, I will endeavour to make this blog as outward, and un-about me as possible going forward. Hopefully it'll grow with maturity and so on as I do. Hah.)