The Weekend Update Without Seth Myers
~ Joe came home from giving a presentation on mindfulness at a Virginia Counselors Association Conference all excited about the Feingold Diet (an anti-additive diet) as a hopeful mental health component to help get school kids off drugs for attention-deficit disorder.
~ I had a set-back in the form of the first (simple partial) seizure I’ve had in over ten years. It went on for longer than past episodes and came in the form of a long heavy deja vu and feeling as if I was about to remember something, coupled with anxiety. I’m still trying to figure out what triggered it and still recovering from it.
~ Joe dug a hole to replant our butterfly bush in a sunnier part of the yard. I called out from the window, “I dig a pony.” He got it.
~ I went to town to do an interview (pre-seizure) with a woman who has a new spa and hair salon in town. I was late because my hair was a mess and I spent an extra five minutes at the mirror trying to fix it.
~ I wore Joe’s hanging name tag from the conference around my neck all day Saturday. I guess this means we’re going steady.
~ Even though it’s November, we woke up this morning to birdsong and ate breakfast on the porch in bare feet.
~ Recent news story reported by Seth Meyers in true twisted humor style was the introduction of a new Winnie the Pooh character because “Eeyore finally did.”
~ That’s the weekend update without Seth Myers. Got to go now; my feet just got cold.
November 15th, 2009 12:40 pm
Your seizure description reminds me of something I went through when I was a little girl. It happened to me a dozen or so times and then seemed to stop when I turned 12. It was never long enough or I was never noticed, because nothing was every done.
November 15th, 2009 2:37 pm
I’d like to get a butterfly bush for my yard.
Sunny Sunday #6 – Color Me Sunny
November 15th, 2009 3:55 pm
Sorry about your seizure, and I hope that’s the last of it.
November 15th, 2009 4:58 pm
Colleen, please take that episode as a message to rest more, to also remember we become anxious often over something that never does happen…we worry that it MIGHT happen…
November 15th, 2009 5:12 pm
Well I am prone to seizure activity and have had shorter spells in the past. I think I just figured this one out. I had been taking St. Johnswort (as a nerve tonic) and just learned that it is not recommended for people who have seizure activity. I was also taking Gotu Kola for circulation, brain function, and as a nerve tonic (I’m high strung and was having early signs of carpal tunnel). The last time I went to buy the tincture it only came with Ginko in it, which is also supposed to be for the brain, but I just now learned that ginko is also not for people with a history of any kind of seizures (of which there are quite a few kinds). Whereas Gota Kola is recommended to help people with seizures. Anxiety is a symptom of seizure, not caused by my own mood, but rather from a misfiring of the brain.
November 15th, 2009 7:27 pm
Hi Colleen. Dropped by from Tanya’s to say how very worried I am about you, and how I am praying this is the last of it for a good long while. Or forever, whichever lasts longer.
We should only have happies and healthies, my friend.
November 15th, 2009 7:47 pm
brain going sideways is always frustrating. one wants to feel one can control one’s mind.
November 15th, 2009 11:18 pm
Thanks for the visit, Colleen. According to the book, Bobby was 95% as bad as Jack – plus they shared their women! The author says that the women who kissed and told said Jack (as a lover) was cold, cut and dried and and Bobby was a romantic.
November 16th, 2009 5:13 am
I think your realization that the seizure may have been caused by those two componants that had not been in your system before, is very interesting. It is amazing how so many things that we take in—even “natural” things can be bad for certain people with certain conditions. Hoping that once they are out of your system the siezure activity will once again decrease!
November 16th, 2009 9:48 am
Sorry to hear about your seizure, that sounds really scary. I hope you are feeling much better.
On a different note, for some reason, I dig a pony reminded me of this video:
Happy Monday!
November 16th, 2009 9:59 am
Wild! He reminds me of Johnny Depp.
November 21st, 2009 2:48 pm
Sorry about your seizure Colleen.