Jun 29 2008

"For the first time in a long time, I don't feel like a zombie"

I’m planning on writing a long post to (re)describe the major events of the past year—a way to commemorate and close the book on the year starting last July 16th. And also, if all goes well, to celebrate going off my very last med, Keppra, which I take for “seizure-like” somethingerother that showed up on my very first EEG. Not that that itself will be easy. I have to replicate my condition from last year. I have to be sleep-deprived by not sleeping, period, the night of July 8th, as if my bachelor party the weekend before wouldn’t be enough to do the trick.

Anyway, sleep deprivation, actually at long last its restful opposite, is the topic today. Continue reading