Dad's not had another seizure since the first one. He's steady on 4mg of Dex and seems to be ok at that. He is a little confused at times and the passage of time can be a bit wonky. 5 minutes can be 5 hours or vice versa.
The other telling thing is personality. The placid soft hearted man is easily aggravated and not backwards about telling the object of his displeasure. He has little or no patience and if something isn't right with him, its very much wrong. TV programmes annoy him, people on phones annoy him, phones annoy him, pretty much everything is annoying him.
As for me. I'm having nightmares and vivid dreams. I'm not sleeping awfully well, have a permanent sickly feeling and had a full on up-chuck migraine today that stopped me going in work. I'm a bit jittery and hormonal this last week or so, if I'm honest its since Dad's seizure I think. My partner is on nights leaving me on my own through the dark hours and Dad's worn me down a little. He's got that permanent feeling of thinking he or I should be doing stuff. Twice I've had panicked phone calls wondering why I've not done something.
Its part of the course, I will cope, we will manage, but I will be completely and utterly knackered by the time we're done.
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