Some serious shit had gone down so I moved back. Every other weekend, I would drive up to see Joel and Keaton. For that reason alone, I needed to be able to have a valid drivers license. On the medical questionnaire, I only counted my grand mals for when my last seizure was. I was still having a shit ton of absence seizures. Dr. Al Sadat and I had to part since my insurance was changing. I had to find neurologist number five.
Bills had to be paid and I needed a job and quick. I found one. I was doing data entry. Probably the most mellow job I ever had. I was no longer in the world of customer service. It was amazing, I was able to chill to music while focusing on one thing. My brain needed that for a while. The absence seizures were very severe with all the time on the computer. Even with the extra breaks I was able to take because of my epilepsy.
I found Dr. Summerfield; close to work. Very nice guy. Once again, we had to make some changes. Dr. Summerfield and I agreed to work on increasing the Topamax. Finally we reached the max on Topamax. We had gone as high as we could. It obviously wasn't taking care of the absence seizures. He added a sister pill called Vimpat. Oh man, that made things very bad. My absence seizures were more of blackouts now. That makes it difficult to drive doesn't it? He took me off of the Vimpat after about a month. Around the same time, he broke the news that he was closing his practice. Damn it!! He referred me to an Epileptologist named Dr. Barken. Epileptologists specialize in guess what....EPILEPSY!!
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