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The Epileptic Time Traveler

The Epileptic Time Traveler

I forgot what this was like. First big temporal lobe seizure in 5 months.

Ooooh yeah. That’s right. None of this is real. We’re living in a dream. I had forgotten since I’ve kept my feet firmly planted in this (or…

2 min readOct 20, 2021

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The Epileptic Time Traveler

Stress, Excitement, Seizures, oh my!

When I was a child, our beloved family dog, Gisben, had a seizure once during a moment of great excitement. We never figured out if it was…

2 min readMay 25, 2021

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The Epileptic Time Traveler

Telling My Employer I Have Epilepsy

A weird conversation, an uncomfortable acceptance and a whole bunch of gratitude.

4 min readMay 15, 2021

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The Epileptic Time Traveler

I Forgot What Normal Feels Like

After a cluster of partial seizures lasting over two weeks, I finally woke up today feeling like myself again.

4 min readMay 14, 2021

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The Epileptic Time Traveler

Pretty sure I broke my brain.

I’m not sure what set off this cluster of partial seizures 13 days ago, but they just won’t let up. I thought it was over until I was…

3 min readMay 9, 2021

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The Epileptic Time Traveler

The Journey from Time Traveling to Epilepsy

Twelve years, five doctors and a little over $100k is all it took to confirm what Google told me in a few minutes for free: I (probably)…

10 min readMay 9, 2021

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The Journey from Time Traveling to Epilepsy

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The Epileptic Time Traveler

I think it might be over for now.

My seizures used to be pretty random, back before anyone ever called them seizures. I really did think I was just getting an occasional…

3 min readMay 8, 2021

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I think it might be over for now.

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The Epileptic Time Traveler

I’ve been waiting all day to time travel.

As soon as I woke up, I knew it was going to happen. Everything looked a little too bright. And everything sounded a little too crisp.

2 min readMay 8, 2021

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I’ve been waiting all day to time travel.

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The Epileptic Time Traveler

I had been time traveling

5 min readMay 7, 2021

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I had been time traveling

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The Epileptic Time Traveler

The Epileptic Time Traveler

After 13 years of randomly blipping into different times and places and realities, a doctor put another name to my episodes: epilepsy.

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