This really meant something to me as at one point of my seizure history Brain Fog was all I knew. On one hand it was nice as I was like an angel floating around on another planet and didn't know or could do anything. On the other larger hand, all those years I missed out on and can not recall a thing.
Now that I am out of it, I dug deep within myself to try and figure what it was really like. What had happened anyway. I read all I could find and also had several solutions of my own of what happened.
Each part of our brain is given different jobs to do and believe me none of these are easy. If these are not done right or get confused in any way then that section just decides to 'go on strike' so to speak. Lets pretend it is a librarian.
Three main areas they attend to are: Attention and encoding, Storage, and Retrieval. I use to be a librarian in school and this is the best way to describe the jobs. It now depends on what kind of Epilepsy you have and which section of the brain is affected.
Attention - Let's start with this and we can go into the other two later. One of the things is namely that most people with Epilepsy have is short attention span. Give the section of the brain that looks after the attention and encoding epilepsy and it can greadly reduce the attention speed and rate of information processed. Have you ever noticed that if you can only work at a slow steady pace things go just as well? Maybe even better? Speed it up a little, or start multi-tasking specially over an extended period of time and it can look like you are hard at work but at the end of the day, not much has been completed or accomplished. One good saying here for you to hang on to is 'Slow and steady wins the race!'. By doing this the brain will not get the chance to get 'spaced out/confused/fogged up' or anything else it could have in mind for you. YEH!!
This past week was a great one for me. No confusion, my library was in great working order and with no fog, it is really a great feeling!
Look for the next number to be about the Storage part....oh oh... what do you think this may be about? Let me know if you have any ideas about it. Remember you are the librarian, you also have Epilepsy and do you need Storage?
Hope this was a great week for all of us Purple Power people fighting Epilepsy together.
Purple Power goes out to all
Julie
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