Melting Mama

NKOTB. :x

Half of my peer group saw NKOTB over the weekend in Boston.

I was like, "WTF?"   So, I am here listening to the new tunes.  Not. half. bad.  I was a Jordan Knight Fan in elementary school.  Mr. MM saw them in concert back then.  He just shakes his head at this video.  Heh heh.

You got The RIGHT STUFF, baby.

Sometimes I think I shouldn't post this stuff.

I have a definite pattern of seizures.  They seem to occur most often in the early morning before I wake up.  That completely cuts off the chance of these early morning seizures being related to reactive hypoglycemia.

I wonder if I were single (sleeping alone) I might never know that I had them, and I would be totally ignorant of it aside from feeling "spacey" and slightly moronic at times.  This morning, I had a seizure at 5:30am. 

My usual routine of gibberish talk, "I need sugar, I'm sorry, I need sugar," Mr. MM says the difference this time was in my sound level.  I YELLED in my semi-comatose state, and I was definitely shaky, but not grand-mal shaky.  I would love to know why I ask for sugar during these episodes, I have been doing it forever, and it's part of the reason I sought treatment for hypoglycemia, I thought I was having such severe lows that THIS happened.  But, who knows? 

In fact during one of the hypoglycemia tests at the Joslin Clinic, I had a seizure, the doctor wouldn't let me leave until I had a "neurology consult" or until my husband came and brought me home.  I had no idea what really happened until later.  While there, I thought it was a low blood sugar, I was pressing the button to indicate the "feeling of a low," and they came over to ask me questions, during that moment, my glucose was normal.  I came here and wrote about it, I still did not realize it was a seizure.

The other not-grand-mal seizures happen during the day, while awake and going about my business and I can sometimes tell it's coming on.  Sometimes, not at ALL.  A couple weeks ago, I had one while we were in line getting lunch, and I had one, no memory whatsoever of the event and I woke up to eating peanut butter out of a tube.  Apparently I asked for "sugar," and it was deemed hypoglycemic, treat it.

I'm bringing the Continuous Glucose Monitor System with me to Philly + LA.  I was saving the sensors for this, how special!  (What a way to start a conversation with New Pre-Op WLS'ers!)

Symptoms- http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/epilepsy/DS00342/DSECTION=symptoms

Because epilepsy is caused by abnormal activity in brain cells, seizures can affect any process your brain coordinates. A seizure can produce temporary confusion, complete loss of consciousness, a staring spell, or uncontrollable jerking movements of the arms and legs.

Symptoms vary depending on the type of seizure. In most cases, a person with epilepsy will tend to have the same type of seizure each time, so the symptoms will be very similar from episode to episode. But some people have many different types of seizures, with different symptoms each time.

Doctors classify seizures as either partial or generalized, based on how the abnormal brain activity begins. When seizures appear to result from abnormal activity in just one part of the brain, they're called partial or focal seizures. Seizures that seem to involve all of the brain are called generalized seizures. In some cases, seizures can begin in one part of the brain and then spread throughout the rest of the brain.

Partial seizures

• Simple partial seizures. These seizures don't result in loss of consciousness. They may alter emotions or change the way things look, smell, feel, taste or sound.
• Complex partial seizures. These seizures alter consciousness, causing you to lose awareness for a period of time. Complex partial seizures often result in staring and non purposeful movements — such as hand rubbing, lip smacking, arm positioning, vocalization or swallowing.

Generalized seizures

• Absence seizures (petit mal). These seizures are characterized by staring, subtle body movement and brief lapses of awareness.
• Myoclonic seizures. These seizures usually appear as sudden jerks of your arms and legs.
• Atonic seizures. Also known as drop attacks, these seizures cause you to suddenly collapse or fall down.
• Tonic-clonic seizures (grand mal). The most intense of all types of seizures, these are characterized by a loss of consciousness, body stiffening and shaking, and sometimes tongue biting or loss of bladder control.

Political. Skip it.

I only post this, because we are one of the many, sub-prime mortgage holders.  I feel sort of like we should all be buiding an Ark and stockpiling rice.  Our house is part of the problem?  I don't know.  I am sorry if we are. This, and houses previous to this, have had "sub-prime" mortgages.  It's all we could get in order to own a house.

If it matters?  I'm a registered, but very apathetic (about everything)  liberal Democrat.  Bob is a registered Republican working for an Internationally owned bank.

This is a ten-part video series about the Subprime Lending Crisis below, here's part one, get a cuppa and sit.

Click through and click "play all" for the rest, it's quite informative.

 

I haz low shoogah.

It's been a while since this happened.  Thank you simple carbohydrates.

OMGZ MILEY CYRUS!

So not our video, but, she was RIGHT THERE, sort of. This was part of Miss C's birthday.

(It makes me twitch.)

We might as well celebrate.

It's National Coffee Day.  Lettuce celebrate.

National Coffee Day from Eric Anderson on Vimeo.

Pioneer Woman gave away two, yeah, two Breville Espresso Machines* on her website with one post garnering 11,000 comments, 10, 994 comments, but I got depressed thinking about scrolling and my computer froze.

How about some CLICK?  That, I can do. Comment.  Tell me how you take YOUR COFFEE.

*Although, I would jump at the chance to give one of you a DeLonghi Magnifica.  *swoon*  This thing has kept me alive for the last nine months.  ;)

I ate some food, and I liked it.

I love this, OMG.  I love this girl!  Put on your humor for just a moment.  She's adorable.  Yes, she's one of us. 

Watch this video.  I cannot embed it.

Please do not...

Please do not view this entry if you are prone to ovulation or have a general dislike of drooling leeches.

The Biggest Loser - The Entire Episode Week One

We're down to one.

ONE PUPPY.