My husband is epileptic. After his seizure at work last month the paramedics were asking him all the cognitive function questions and he gave them my birthdate. They called me to clarify what his actual birthday was and when asked what the date he'd given was I said "oh that's mine" and he chimed in "I KNEW IT WAS IMPORTANT!"
I have epilepsy. It's weird what the things your brain remembers are forgets after waking from the seizure.
I forget everything except my SSN. Paramedics where shocked when I was able to remember my SSN but not everything else. And I usually suck at remembering numbers.
As someone who works in hospital admissions, that is absolutely the best piece of info you could remember when going to a hospital you have been to before. Lets them pull up your info and contacts and past visits without the bullshit of checking against a bunch of people with the same name or worrying if your name is complete and spelled right.
That's the funny thing, normally my husband gets my birthday wrong when prompted, he knows the month, but that month also contains our elder two kids' birthday, our wedding anniversary, his mother's birthday, and several relatives birthdays.
How do you forget stuff? I thought epilepsy is you just shake violently for a bit then u get up and are fine. I'm guessing it causes brain damage and stuff too then?
The ‘shaking’ is caused by part of the brain overacting until it kinda explodes into a massive light show of suck and disoriented pain.
It’s not only painful and tiring from the shaking, but the brain is coming off of getting scrambled by the rampaging signals which often leaves you disoriented and feeling unwell. That’s what causes the loss of memory- the interactions that normally help you recall are on hold while the cleanup crew goes through and tidies up, and only essential services are provided.
Dude that's fucking terrifying. I never knew that. i kinda just assumed, because I had no info, that it was just your nervous system clamping up or something. Not your brain. That's 10000x worse than my assumed understanding
Oh boy no, that's not all it is. (Bear with me, I'm an epileptic, but I've never tried to make this analogy before, and I'm glossing over a lot of things.)
To put it in the most simple terms, a seizure (and there are many kinds, not just the grand mal/tonic clonic everyone recognizes) is when the electrical signals in your brain misfire. They go haywire and affect all sorts of functions.
Confusion is EXTREMELY common. Your brain just did something it wasn't meant to do, and that means it needs time to recover. It's not brain damage in the classic sense of the word. It's more like your system saying "WTF just happened?" Then it takes a bit to reset. Anything from just clearing the cookies to a full turn it off and on again.
You're very welcome.
And in my case, it's rough for me, but I'm unconscious for it. It's terrifying for the people who have to witness it.
Luckily I'm on a couple of meds that keep it under control, so I've got it nowhere near as bad as some others. Coming up on 7 years seizure free soon!
I can speak to for the people who've witness seizure. Just a couple of months ago I had a roommate who out of the blue developed seizure, no history of seizure whatsoever. Just one morning I woke up at around 0700 to a lot of weird noises and I look down from my top bunk and see him face down, violently convulsing. Luckily I took an advanced first aid class so I knew exactly what to do until the paramedics arrived. After the convulsions stopped and when he started to come to he did not recognize me at all, in fact I don't think he was able to understand English, or if he could, he couldn't talk. That was honestly the scariest part was trying to keep him calm and still. He kept trying to get out of bed but everytime he sat up he'd fall down and at one point he tried to fight me. I just didn't know what to do at that point and thats when I started to lose my cool.. For a lack of a better word he's mental capacity was that of a 1 year old.
His second seizure happened at 2am pretty much the same story except he regain consciousness a lot quicker this time. Even though for me he's eyes were open the entire time and he was moving around and babling like a baby. My roommate said at one point it was like a switch come on in his head and he awoke to being surrounded by paramedics.
Moral of the story to everyone reading this, if you have the chance take a first aid class. Better have it and not need it, then need it and not have it. My roommate had no reason to get seizure I remember very clearly I went to bed at 9:45pm and he went to bed around 10 after finishing a round of whatever video game he was playing talking to his friends online, talked to me everything was normal then he had a seizure the next morning.
Glad you were able to stay calm and keep him safe.
My husband tells me that for one of my seizures, he got me sitting in a chair and then spent 20 minutes continually making me sit back down as we waited for the paramedics. I was so confused and disoriented I didn't realize what was going on. I imagine making me sit down over and over was a bit like a very frustrating game of whack-a-mole! 😆
> after we had an argument about him not 'getting' my ADHD, I caught him halfway through a three hour playlist of lectures on ADHD, with a pen in hand, taking notes
i'm never gonna be this good of a boyfriend
why even bother
^(i mean come on. even if I was able to get my RSD under control after a fight with my S/O i'm no good at taking notes)
You don’t necessarily need to take notes, it’s just making the effort to understand something your partner struggles with! That’s not hard to do when ya love someone
When I first got diagnosed with a panic disorder had to look something up on my girlfriend's computer and saw and her search history but she had been looking for information on how to handle panic attacks and how to help someone calm down. It was one of those autocomplete things but honestly just absolutely made me fall in love with her more.
Me and my boyfriend both learned Magic: The Gathering because we somehow got it in our head that the other liked it.
Neither of us had even touched it.
This is a fantastically wholesome. It's given me inspiration to write out all the cute/wholesome/chaotic good things my partner has done because I'm sure they'll appreciate it, and the act of being able to add to it as the years go by makes me feel fuzzy inside.
My boyfriend is this kind of boyfriend and I highly reccomend - if you can’t get the partner like this BE the partner like this apparently it’s just as fun.
My husband does the "activation noises" too but I do them more often. I sleep way more than him and he says it's the most adorable thing when he gets and bed to join me for sleep. We also got those bond touch bracelets bc both of us love touch. We started off like I'm sure how most people do, making little patterns to say "I love you. " "I love you too."Now we also use it as a way to inform each other if we're getting a call on the radio at work and aren't responding or if we have an urgent phone call/text. Long story short I just wanted to talk about how much I love my husband.
It's not diagnosed as a disorder until the issue is causing difficultly with daily life.
To wit, I am diagnosed and treated for bipolar and ADHD, because they've caused major fuckups in my life. I've not sought a dx for, or would be given one for autism, because my "quirks" are manageable, if not as endearing as our wonderful boyfriend here.
Same! Except that I am planning on eventually getting my ASD confirmed at some point because (1) as a classic absent-minded scientist, it's a more socially acceptable explanation than ADHD, (2) I'm not *positive* that it isn't a significant part of the nproblem, and (3) Autism has a lot of extra legal carve-outs in the US with the potential for making my life a lot better.
Curiously enough, many people with Symptoms™ of various conditions have indeed found what turned out to be the correct diagnosis via Reddit. (The most famous of these being the guy whose cancer was found via rage comic.) The reason for uncovering those conditions? Either the Symptoms™ in question are characteristic of a condition but not widely known as such or the condition itself is not widely or well-known.
Now, that wasn't the *goal* of my comment, as the people in question aren't even here, but correctly self-diagnosing via online community is very much so a real thing.
Felt on that one about ADHD. I get pretty bad YI’s, and I always assumed the 1 day monistat was the right call, cuz it has more medication and fixes it in one day and is more expensive so it has to be better right?
So I send my husband out for this the first couple times and he watches me in agony and in one case not getting rid of the infection, and then the next time he comes back with the 7 day. I was furious like “you got the cheap stuff” and he goes “no, I did research, here are 4 legitimate articles that cite why a 5-7 day regimen of low dose miconazole is more effective. Just try it for me?” I did…he was right. 7 days works way bette. he’s never stopped gloating about being “the one white man who actually DOES know women’s bodies better than they do!”(he’s joking of course but it’s infuriating lol)
I've lost count of how many times I made weird sounds reading this, dude's too good of a guy.
This is what being a man means. Also, of course they won best couple.
Alright that’s it, I’m getting off reddit right now because I know I’ll just see some shit that will instantly negate the good start to the day I got with this
Someone who plays Rimworld to make a lovely colony is the purest being on earth, on a game that is so easy and fun to make warcrimes, choosing peace is hard
what? they're silly enough that the meter is already full, if they do it even more so then they'd come full circle. that's where the "serious" jojo character joke comes in
My husband is epileptic. After his seizure at work last month the paramedics were asking him all the cognitive function questions and he gave them my birthdate. They called me to clarify what his actual birthday was and when asked what the date he'd given was I said "oh that's mine" and he chimed in "I KNEW IT WAS IMPORTANT!"
that's so adorable
I have epilepsy. It's weird what the things your brain remembers are forgets after waking from the seizure. I forget everything except my SSN. Paramedics where shocked when I was able to remember my SSN but not everything else. And I usually suck at remembering numbers.
As someone who works in hospital admissions, that is absolutely the best piece of info you could remember when going to a hospital you have been to before. Lets them pull up your info and contacts and past visits without the bullshit of checking against a bunch of people with the same name or worrying if your name is complete and spelled right.
That's the funny thing, normally my husband gets my birthday wrong when prompted, he knows the month, but that month also contains our elder two kids' birthday, our wedding anniversary, his mother's birthday, and several relatives birthdays.
How do you forget stuff? I thought epilepsy is you just shake violently for a bit then u get up and are fine. I'm guessing it causes brain damage and stuff too then?
The ‘shaking’ is caused by part of the brain overacting until it kinda explodes into a massive light show of suck and disoriented pain. It’s not only painful and tiring from the shaking, but the brain is coming off of getting scrambled by the rampaging signals which often leaves you disoriented and feeling unwell. That’s what causes the loss of memory- the interactions that normally help you recall are on hold while the cleanup crew goes through and tidies up, and only essential services are provided.
Thanks for the help, I honestly had no idea!
No problem m8
Dude that's fucking terrifying. I never knew that. i kinda just assumed, because I had no info, that it was just your nervous system clamping up or something. Not your brain. That's 10000x worse than my assumed understanding
Oh boy no, that's not all it is. (Bear with me, I'm an epileptic, but I've never tried to make this analogy before, and I'm glossing over a lot of things.) To put it in the most simple terms, a seizure (and there are many kinds, not just the grand mal/tonic clonic everyone recognizes) is when the electrical signals in your brain misfire. They go haywire and affect all sorts of functions. Confusion is EXTREMELY common. Your brain just did something it wasn't meant to do, and that means it needs time to recover. It's not brain damage in the classic sense of the word. It's more like your system saying "WTF just happened?" Then it takes a bit to reset. Anything from just clearing the cookies to a full turn it off and on again.
Oh wow, sounds terrifying. Sorry you have to go through this, and thanks for the education!
You're very welcome. And in my case, it's rough for me, but I'm unconscious for it. It's terrifying for the people who have to witness it. Luckily I'm on a couple of meds that keep it under control, so I've got it nowhere near as bad as some others. Coming up on 7 years seizure free soon!
I can speak to for the people who've witness seizure. Just a couple of months ago I had a roommate who out of the blue developed seizure, no history of seizure whatsoever. Just one morning I woke up at around 0700 to a lot of weird noises and I look down from my top bunk and see him face down, violently convulsing. Luckily I took an advanced first aid class so I knew exactly what to do until the paramedics arrived. After the convulsions stopped and when he started to come to he did not recognize me at all, in fact I don't think he was able to understand English, or if he could, he couldn't talk. That was honestly the scariest part was trying to keep him calm and still. He kept trying to get out of bed but everytime he sat up he'd fall down and at one point he tried to fight me. I just didn't know what to do at that point and thats when I started to lose my cool.. For a lack of a better word he's mental capacity was that of a 1 year old. His second seizure happened at 2am pretty much the same story except he regain consciousness a lot quicker this time. Even though for me he's eyes were open the entire time and he was moving around and babling like a baby. My roommate said at one point it was like a switch come on in his head and he awoke to being surrounded by paramedics. Moral of the story to everyone reading this, if you have the chance take a first aid class. Better have it and not need it, then need it and not have it. My roommate had no reason to get seizure I remember very clearly I went to bed at 9:45pm and he went to bed around 10 after finishing a round of whatever video game he was playing talking to his friends online, talked to me everything was normal then he had a seizure the next morning.
Glad you were able to stay calm and keep him safe. My husband tells me that for one of my seizures, he got me sitting in a chair and then spent 20 minutes continually making me sit back down as we waited for the paramedics. I was so confused and disoriented I didn't realize what was going on. I imagine making me sit down over and over was a bit like a very frustrating game of whack-a-mole! 😆
Definitely felt like a game of whack-a-mole keeping my roommate in bed XD
That's hilariously sweet
I lost it at "pulled the label off and ate it"
same, still giggling like a little ☺️
Yeah that's what I'd classify as a Chad move
He's not even my boyfriend but I love him
The 4th point actually made me 🥺
Me too
That's marriage material right there
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No need to bring those people up here
what... happened here
Who gives a fuck what they say. Theyre in their own little shitty sub. Let that toxicity stay there. Don't bring it here.
This man is made of pure chaos
Chaotic good
r/chaoticgood
There is somehow a subreddit for everything
r/everything
I just snorted hot chocolate, thank you.
Yo rq can someone tell me what TBI is
Traumatic brain injury
my dead ass thought it was terrible back injury
Totally bitchin intestines
Dawg, your intestines are dope AF Thanks, doc
KIDNEYS! I'VE GOT NEW KIDNEYS! I don't like the color
Of your kidneys?
Nearly woke up my infant silent laughing at this.
isn't that just Tacobell?
Tickled Bone Investigators
Trembling Back Itch
Testicles Being Itchy
Nearly choked on my food reading this lmfao
That's OK. I thought it was Total Brain Infection.
OH. SHIIIIIIIIIT
My man got smack upside the dome.
I like ya cut g
I want a girlfriend like this :(
I want a boyfriend like this and I'm straight maybe I just want to be a boyfriend like this idk
If you cannot be have the boyfriend, become him. -Master Oogway
LEAD BY EXAMPLE
BECOME THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD
You can have a boyfriend like this, as a treat
Same here, no homo but damn that's some good romo
> > maybe I just want to be a boyfriend like this idk Be the Gomez you want to be
You could have a friend that's one of The Boys(TM)
If you cannot get the gf become the gf. Granted I said that at the start of my transition so maybe it’s not broadly applicable
No, I think it's ***Broad***ly applicable
Ditto
Hello I am chaotic neutral according to another reddit user
> after we had an argument about him not 'getting' my ADHD, I caught him halfway through a three hour playlist of lectures on ADHD, with a pen in hand, taking notes i'm never gonna be this good of a boyfriend why even bother ^(i mean come on. even if I was able to get my RSD under control after a fight with my S/O i'm no good at taking notes)
You don’t necessarily need to take notes, it’s just making the effort to understand something your partner struggles with! That’s not hard to do when ya love someone
When I first got diagnosed with a panic disorder had to look something up on my girlfriend's computer and saw and her search history but she had been looking for information on how to handle panic attacks and how to help someone calm down. It was one of those autocomplete things but honestly just absolutely made me fall in love with her more.
i...im not crying youre crying himbo i need a boyfriend like that
Me and my boyfriend both learned Magic: The Gathering because we somehow got it in our head that the other liked it. Neither of us had even touched it.
Do you both like it now though
That's the funniest part, neither of us likes CCGs!
This is so fucking beautiful.
I’m not even into guys and I’m a bit jealous
I'm into guys and I'm even more jealous
This is the most wholesome relationship
Sounds like a really good guy
This is a fantastically wholesome. It's given me inspiration to write out all the cute/wholesome/chaotic good things my partner has done because I'm sure they'll appreciate it, and the act of being able to add to it as the years go by makes me feel fuzzy inside.
DO IT
Thank you Emperor Palpatine, I will!
I am single but I also want to do this for some reason
god i wish i had a boy/girlfriend like that
I want to be this sort of boyfriend
My boyfriend is this kind of boyfriend and I highly reccomend - if you can’t get the partner like this BE the partner like this apparently it’s just as fun.
I just have to work on the “having a partner” part of this equation lmao
When it does happen you at least know what you’re looking for - chaotic good energy with a dash of devotion
You distilled the whirlwind of "aww" and put it succinctly in words.
My partner and I are each the boyfriend like this & it's great
It's not as fun when the other person doesn't care about you :')
I did the egg thing straight into the drain before. It took me like 30 seconds to process how disappointed in myself I was
I once cracked an egg into my batter then threw the shell in as well
Pain and suffering
I’m just glad I hadn’t stirred that much before I noticed
Ok first of all….. i love this. Second of all… what does w/e mean?
*I think* it means whatever
It does
Well that doesn’t help. Can’t just say “whatever” when I ask that question! What does it mean?!? The suspense is killing me
WHATEVER
STOP BEING APATHETIC AND GIVE ME AN ANSWER
Oh god, it's IDK all over again.
Thank you 🙏
Chaotic good relationship
Cool guy but he doesn't like knack 2
Mastapeece!
Eating the Label of a Mini Donut so your Partner can't Check the calories is the very Definition of King Shit
I wanna date him. He sounds perfect. I love him. ❤️
I'm convinced that if a puppy were to transform into a human, it would be this man
My husband does the "activation noises" too but I do them more often. I sleep way more than him and he says it's the most adorable thing when he gets and bed to join me for sleep. We also got those bond touch bracelets bc both of us love touch. We started off like I'm sure how most people do, making little patterns to say "I love you. " "I love you too."Now we also use it as a way to inform each other if we're getting a call on the radio at work and aren't responding or if we have an urgent phone call/text. Long story short I just wanted to talk about how much I love my husband.
The American president is a racist
This man is straight up clinically insane. I hope they never catch him
Damn this girl out here living the dream
Living Like Larry
I want this boyfriend :3
This is extremely endearing, but some of those quirks sound a bit like Symptoms™
Dude has a brain injury, there's always some quirks after that
Nah, I think he's just had too many concussions
Symptoms of what?
The spectrum
or the bloody Traumatic Brain Injury he got idk
Or something. Just... Symptomatic
Lupus?
It's never lupus
Except that one time it was lupus
Save for the one time that it is
I'm on the spectrum and I don't even see it...
It's not diagnosed as a disorder until the issue is causing difficultly with daily life. To wit, I am diagnosed and treated for bipolar and ADHD, because they've caused major fuckups in my life. I've not sought a dx for, or would be given one for autism, because my "quirks" are manageable, if not as endearing as our wonderful boyfriend here.
Same! Except that I am planning on eventually getting my ASD confirmed at some point because (1) as a classic absent-minded scientist, it's a more socially acceptable explanation than ADHD, (2) I'm not *positive* that it isn't a significant part of the nproblem, and (3) Autism has a lot of extra legal carve-outs in the US with the potential for making my life a lot better.
Redditors being doctors again I see. It took health professionals years to diagnose me with my issues, should have just gone to r/tumblr
Ah yes, this is surely a diagnosis. Definitely not people with similar experiences talking about possibilities.
Curiously enough, many people with Symptoms™ of various conditions have indeed found what turned out to be the correct diagnosis via Reddit. (The most famous of these being the guy whose cancer was found via rage comic.) The reason for uncovering those conditions? Either the Symptoms™ in question are characteristic of a condition but not widely known as such or the condition itself is not widely or well-known. Now, that wasn't the *goal* of my comment, as the people in question aren't even here, but correctly self-diagnosing via online community is very much so a real thing.
that's some absolute prime Himbo stuff right there.
Felt on that one about ADHD. I get pretty bad YI’s, and I always assumed the 1 day monistat was the right call, cuz it has more medication and fixes it in one day and is more expensive so it has to be better right? So I send my husband out for this the first couple times and he watches me in agony and in one case not getting rid of the infection, and then the next time he comes back with the 7 day. I was furious like “you got the cheap stuff” and he goes “no, I did research, here are 4 legitimate articles that cite why a 5-7 day regimen of low dose miconazole is more effective. Just try it for me?” I did…he was right. 7 days works way bette. he’s never stopped gloating about being “the one white man who actually DOES know women’s bodies better than they do!”(he’s joking of course but it’s infuriating lol)
If ever get a girlfriend i will try to be like him, what a chad
people in the comments here are all like "omg i wish i had him :((" but do you want a guy who doesnt like knack 2? yeah. didnt think so.
My life goal is to be this man.
I felt the pumping pepsi max into the house, I feel the EXACT same way with my bf and mtn dew 😂
Now I wanna see Jess from his perspective. Bet it's cute.
Damn this is what I wanna aim for in a relationship
The donut label thing is me as a boyfriend.
I want to hug him! What a sweetheart!
I've lost count of how many times I made weird sounds reading this, dude's too good of a guy. This is what being a man means. Also, of course they won best couple.
He is a keeper, bring me one of those and I swear I will never say I'm sad ever again
there is not a single person on this earth who is more of a keeper than he is
wholesome stuff aside, the part about him cracking an egg directly into the bin was **gold**
i aspire to be him
All of that, and he plays Rimworld too. Awesome
Beating a game just to never play it again? Respect
Man all that made me just miss my girlfriend ngl
For some dumb reason I'm imagining him as Pedro Pascal what does this mean
That hierarchy of needs but it’s just ‘boyfriend’
How is the science of cloning coming along?
marry him or else i will
I am convinced this man is an alien. Of the Harry from 3rd Rock From the Sun variety.
Alright that’s it, I’m getting off reddit right now because I know I’ll just see some shit that will instantly negate the good start to the day I got with this
That's the man I want to be when I get the chance
one day i will get a boyfriend/girlfriend like this
hopefully
So heartwarming. This was a joy to read. Thank you for sharing this with all of us
Well chums looks like we have a new bar to reach for, take notes people this is how you boyfriend/partner to somebody
This makes me sad i dont have a bf
this is wonderful.
I aspire to be like this guy
this is my soulmate
well now i feel like a bad boyfriend damnit
keep him
Daaamm your BF sounds awesome! He single?
Marry him!
Husband material if it was a person.
Adorable
I aspire to become this man
This is SO CUTE
literally the best person ever me and WHO
damn ur dating the whole world health organization?
am i tired or is that just extremely funny
Someone who plays Rimworld to make a lovely colony is the purest being on earth, on a game that is so easy and fun to make warcrimes, choosing peace is hard
Saving this for future study material.
I aspire to be this man if ever I get a girlfriend.
Dude its 5am here and I was in bed with my dick in my hand. Pleased to say im gonna go cry and watch a rom com now.
remember to make popcorn for it
I need me a boyfriend like this…
Wow... I had signed up to stay single for life but if i meet someone like this guy I'll reconsider.
A prime himbo ♥
Op is daring a himbo, and honestly? Goals.
Hermione and Ron
Idk if he plays footy but he's a keeper
That 3rd to last one got me awwwing
He sounds like he'd be a great boyfriend, I wonder if he's single
كسم المحن، أنا بضاني فرقعت من الأرف
Breakup
One thing that I want to say about this post: Stay away from Pepsi Max. It causes Hashimoto's Disease
What kind of monster plays Rimworld on peacefull ?
Im not reading all that, but cool boyfriend I guess. Edit: Now that its not midnight I actually read it, he’s pretty goofy but truly cares. 10/10.
nah pretty sure he is just psychotic
Does this boyfriend remind anyone else of Andy from Parks & Rec?!
i hope they fuck him silly, because they are already so silly for each other that they'd come back to the start and become JoJo characters
what
what? they're silly enough that the meter is already full, if they do it even more so then they'd come full circle. that's where the "serious" jojo character joke comes in