I'm sorry your body isn't behaving, my incontinence is flaring up again. I don't know why and it makes me feel so out of control. Yay for up and coming normalcy!

I'm really happy that you had a good hospital experience. You mentioned Charlotte. Is that where you live? If so you are in a city that has a lot of very good medical care. We live in the Charlotte area too and my wife has had some excellent stroke treatment here. The bottom line is that you are in a place where help is available and I am glad that you availed yourself of it. As you can tell by perusing this forum, many people live in remote areas where the kind of help available to you is essentially inaccessible as a practical matter. So you are lucky, believe it or not.  I realize that your problems are very hard on you as a young person but I think it is important to focus not on what you have lost but on what you have kept or regained. You come across here as a young woman with a good mind and a knack for writing with feeling and clarity. That is talent that not everyone has. It's good that you found this forum because it gives you the opportunity to use your writing and critical thinking skills. Keep looking for other things that you do well and develop them too. I'm sure there are a lot of them to be found. Whatever you do, don't allow the dark cloud of depression to engulf and consume you. If you feel it rolling in, get in touch with someone who can help ward it off and do so without delay. It's good that you were with the right person when your recent bout of depression arrived and it is even better that you got treatment that seems to have worked very well. I hope you are as thrilled as your dad is. It's something worth celebrating.

Good luck. And hang in there.

--Ron

Katrina

I m so glad you got right treatment after few frustrated earlier tries I strongly feel in life there will be always wall to stop you from things you want it is not there to discourage you I think it is there for us to sharpen our perserverence skills when you persist and don't give up you find a way congratulations happy for you

Hey Katrina,

Well done!

Drugs that are designed to help sometimes can cause more trouble so I am so glad they got it sorted out. Often emotions take on a life of their own too and that can be scary. During suffering it isn't not normal to want to be put out of misery--like that double negative there--but it certainly is a cry for help from body and soul. Thank heavens you have a wonderful instinctive self-advocate inside of you that rescues you as well as an awesome Dad and supportive people in the community. As a parent I can say that I would worry if you didn't ask for help every time you needed it but I do say I am proud that you are more independent now too. Juggling around meds is a frustrating thing. It is good you keep on top of what your body tells you.

I am so glad you feel better and back to the YOU. It is so hard to deal with seizures that interrupt, intrude, and invade. I hope that you go on and do what you want to do and defy them. You are a beautiful young woman inside and out and certainly an inspiration everywhere you go. I am wishing you well.

So good you feel as if you are back to the "old you".  Let's hope that feeling lasts. Sue. :clap:

Katrina, you believe in God and you know what He can do for anyone at anytime, so keep the faith, the real light is just ahead of you to live in total peace...

Fred