Wednesday, February 03, 2010

neurologist with a wikipedia education

I recently came across a few blogs that inspired me to start writing. Even if just for myself, as an outlet, to keep track of my growth, to someday look back on...
A few weeks ago I probably would have written of love or school or at risk youth... all relevant to my life at the moment. These last few days the only thing on my mind is sleep. And not in the cuddle up in bed with a book on a rainy day type of sleep, but rather the constantly exhausted no matter how much sleep you get, it's consuming your life sleep.
I've been going to a neurologist who's been sending me to various tests over the past couple of weeks. My sleep EEG came back with a paroxsymal graph... my doctor interpreted it as epileptic. I looked at him and asked him how epilepsy is at all relevant to what I came to him for. He opened my files, told me (as if I didn't know) that I'm often sleepy and fall asleep at inappropriate times. Then he proceeded to open google, type narcolepsy, and open Wikipedia's entry. Needless to say I was a bit shocked. He informed me he was checking to see if narcoleptic EEG results are similar to epileptic results - Wikipedia (surprise!) didn't have such answers. But it did tell him of sleep studies which he decided to send me to.
So I've been endlessly surfing the web reading about narcolepsy, epilepsy, diagnosis, paraxosym, sleep studies... and there are moment where my eyes well up with tears at the relief of knowing that there's a reason behind my fatigue, that I'm not just over-exaggerating my exhaustion, and that I'm not at fault.
Other times my eyes well up realizing that if it isn't my fault (though how could it be?) I can't make it go away.

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