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EPI DICTIONARY FOR BYSTANDERS

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Aftershocks: The time after a grand mal while still post-ictal just before the next seizure
 

Balanced Mix: The ability to simultaneously walk a straight line and talk despite all the AEDs in your system

 

Big Meanies: Seizures that hang around for hours or even days & thus the desire for a 6’ box

 

Carpe Diem: Life’s motto for anyone with seizures

 

Electric Personality: Character type during any type of seizure

 

Flash Frames: Small seizures where one body part is hanging onto a live-wire

 

Fuzzy Temples: The sensation as if one’s temples are made of foam & precede a CP type aura

 

Having A Grand Ol’ Time: A grand mal

 

Gravitron: Another name for any room when the SEs of AEDs kick in

 

Hummers: (…no, not the new fangled vehicle) The sound of an internal current flowing; ringing in the ears

 

I’m Home: The brain is back & functioning

 

King Seizure: Ruler who “taxes the senses” and demands an “All Hail” from his subjects

 

Muzzed & Fuzzed: Somewhere between Not Connected and I’m Home

 

Not Connected: The brain’s not quite back & functioning

 

Petit Mal Pizza: Pizza ordered from an establishment named after a Roman ruler from over 2000 years ago 

 

Pharmacy: 1) Any epileptic’s body (2) An epileptic’s weekly pill organizer

 

Play-By-Play: Other peoples’ recap of witnessed seizures

 

Riding the Tube: An MRI scan

 

Snapshot: A tiny bit of coherency that lasts a second or two in between seizures

 

Spin Doctors: Brain jockeys who keep the tables turning (as well as many of the walls)

 

Strange Brew: (…no, not the movie) The combo of AEDs and the side effects of resulting interactions

 

Walking on Sunshine:  One of the days when all seizures come to a halt, bringing mental clarity, improved memory & all the senses reawaken in living color.

 

Wiped Out: Post-ictal  

 

Zapped: Being aware of having VNS going off

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