The Funny Feeling

After the soccer incident I spoke to a couple medical friends.

 I am a nurse myself but what was happening with my son was beyond my expertise.

I heard a couple of times, "It sounds like migraines."

I truly felt it was more then that, but who knows?

Since then Arthur had begun to complain of the "funny feeling." It would make him feel unnerved, a little spacey.

If memory serves I think he complained of this way before I took it seriously and it had any other symptoms associated with it.

The IT struck again.

(how I felt not knowing what was happening)

We were at an end of the year carnival at his school. Playing games, having a great time.

Then he comes to me, " Mom I have the funny feeling."

He gets this look of horror.

We walk to a bathroom, no help. So I decide we better leave. Just as we start to walk to the car, it was as if the earth gave out beneath him. He went to his knees and vomited. After that I could barely get him to the car. He slept the whole way home.

After some sleep.....it was like nothing had happened.

That was it. We were going to a specialist.           

The Day Epilepsy entered our life

The day it all began. It was just an ordinary day.

The car was packed and we were off to Arthur's soccer game. My daughter was playing nearby as I sat on the sidelines to watch the game.

Then, I notice my 10yr old son wandering off the field into the distance.
As if he was in a trance.

The coach grabbed him as I ran over to see what was wrong.

Something was not right.

He looked dazed as I asked where he was going.

He stated, " I was going home, where is my home."

My heart dropped.

He then became very sleepy and laid his head down in my lap.

That was enough for me. I packed up our things and we headed home.

He fell asleep on the couch after complaining of a headache.

When he woke up an hour later....

he had NO recollection of what had happened.

Of course, now he seemed like himself.

What the heck just happened?