Stacey's Outlook

This all started when I was 10 years old and I got my monthly the same time I got epilepsy. I was at school in 5th grade and I started feeling dizzy and putting my head down on the desk. The teacher asked me if I was okay and I really couldn't talk to her, so she asked me to step outside and we were on the steps with my back to the ground. I fainted, but she claimed she caught me before I fell back. I think I woke up in the hospital with my parents around me. They didn't tell me much because they really didn't know either. The Dr put me on Pheno and I was taking about 12-16 tablets a day. To keep you in touch, my mother had Juvenile Diabetes so she was put in the hospital a lot for going into coma's. I also have a sister and brother with nothing wrong with them. My mother passed away when I was 13 so she really didn't see a lot of this, just my father and sister and brother. So between my ages of 10 and 13 I do remember my mother occasionally taking me to the Dr, but it felt like it was a little easier with the epilepsy then. I slept a lot. I went to bed at 8-9pm and got up about 7am. I really didn't have many friends so I stayed inside a lot. My father treated it like I couldn't be under a lot of stress which today later in my life he realized was wrong. For the friends I had they were ok with it. By the way I was living in S. Calif. at the time and in 1971 they had an earthquake which really brought me and my mother down. We then, meaning my father and myself had to move to N. Calif. thinking it would be better for my mother so I had to leave my friends. My sister and brother stayed in S. Calif. So to let you know, my mother passed away in 1974 and I was still on Pheno. I didn't have many friemds there either. I felt like I couldn't live a life for myself. So when I was 16 is where I remember a lot and where it all really starts. My father and I moved to NJ and I get a Dr and he takes me off Pheno and puts me on Tegretol. My monthy's went crazy. He put me on Depakene,

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