8.20.2016

day seven hundred twenty

one: the number of days since Calvin's last partial seizure.
four: the number of days since Calvin's last grand mal seizure.
five: the number of consecutive days Calvin has had seizures this week.
seven hundred twenty: the number of days since Calvin's last conscious-onset grand mal seizure (one that starts when he is awake, not sleeping.)

As inevitable as I have always thought this day would be, it is still sobering to know that he broke that nice long stretch this morning.

Tomorrow we start back to day one.

2 comments:

  1. Is there a substantive difference between awake-onset and asleep-onset grand mal seizures? I ask because it seems as though my son's pattern has changed from the former to the later of late.

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    1. not that i know of, although sleep and seizures are often bedfellows (it is very common to have seizures in sleep or when just awaking). now i will worry about daytime seizures at school. for over two years he's only had tonic-clonic seizures at night where he is safe in bed. sigh.

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