Purple Day
Today is Purple Day! It's a day to celebrate, recognize, and bring awareness to epilepsy. It's about dispelling myths, shedding light on the condition and educating people. You can read more about it at https://purpleday.org.
I've written extensively about my experience with Epilepsy; here are all the things I've written:
- 5-Hour EEG
- 2 Years Seizure-Free (Medium)
- I Am 1 in 100 (Medium)
- How Physiotherapy Helped Me After Multiple Seizures Due to Epilepsy (Medium)
- Dealing With Epilepsy (Medium)
I don't have a lot to say today, as I feel I've said a lot about it already (see above). But one thing I will add is that this week - only Tuesday so far! - I've felt a lot of stress from work. Actually, the last three weeks have been rather stressful in terms of volume of work and the type of work I've had to do. Don't get me wrong, it's all part of my regular duties, I've just had some particularly bad days compared to "normal" times.
As best as my wife and I can figure, stress is one of my seizure triggers. Luckily (and I have to emphasize I am lucky) my seizures are under control, last June notwithstanding1. So I do my best to mitigate stress in my life, although it's not always possible. But today, knowing that I'm entering a somewhat stressful situation, I made some adjustments in my day.
Briefly:
- There was a meeting in the board room a few doors down from my office and it was loud; I closed my door and popped in my current AudioBook
- I set a few 10-minute timers to take some breaks to read some RSS feed items I had saved up
- Went out for a walk when I had the chance, and listened to a couple of short podcasts
So I'm doing well today, and don't feel the stress so much. My to-do list is almost complete - a far cry from yesterday when I couldn't finish the list.
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I had a seizure in June due to missed medication.↩