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 BBV: Chelle's in the Hospital
Quick catch-up for people who don't know: My girlfriend (Chelle here on FTR and in IRC) has had a non-epileptic form of seizures for the past 9-10 months. They are a result of uber severe problems with anxiety and stress management that manifests itself physically for whatever reason. If you're interested to know more, check the Wikipedia entry for conversion disorder.
I'm pretty tired from 3-4 hours of sleep in the past 3 days or so and so I'm going to give the short version of what's going on. She had some new changes with her seizures which signaled to me that I was in over my head so I drug her to the ER at 2 am two nights ago. She's under observation now while they do a bunch of stuff and figure out what the deal is.
After having her right under my ass 24/7 (I have to watch her for her own safety etc) for almost the past year straight since her seizures started, this is the first time I've been away from her for more than 2-3 hours straight. I get to visit her twice a day for about 60-90 minutes each time, once around lunch time and once later in the evening. They expect for her to be in there another 3-7 days, just depending on what happens.
Just thought I'd give a heads up so you can be all like get well soon or whatever.
Brag: Lately she's been down to having only 3-4 episodes a week, and when they first started it was like 5-8 a day.
Beat: I'm so tired it's taken me 45 minutes to type this but I can't fall asleep and stay asleep.
Variance: Because of the specifics of what happened (which I can't really get into here), she scared me so badly that I was trembling, except I didn't "feel" scared, just a heightened sense of awareness. Which was fucking weird.
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Originally Posted by sauce123
