Crystallyne Vixen
sachiko_sohma
Misty_Watersprite
Nonesuch Solo
Now, listen close: In a perfectly ideal world, there would be NO NEED for abortion.
In a perfectly ideal world, if a fertile, heterosexual couple wanted to have sex but did not want to have a baby, there would be 100% effective methods of birth control that would enable them to ******** their little hearts out and never conceive.
In a perfectly ideal world, nobody would commit rape, thus eliminating the "oh but what if the girl gets preggers from rape?!?!" side of the debate.
In a perfectly ideal world, there would be no need to abort unhealthy fetii (is that the right plural?).
I'd be all for making abortions illegal if I could also find a way to get rid of all the reasons women find for aborting.
If it were my choice, I would keep the baby.
But the law says it isn't my choice unless it's my uterus.
Face it, folks, not all people flying a "Pro-Life" flag are ignorant to the needs of women.
Not that I completely agree - a woman still deserves the rights to her body - but if you can cure my epilepsy I'd give you a cookie. I know it's a long way off yet, and I now know the odds of 'something' going wrong because of it, not just because of the medication I take, but if I get pregnant I'm going to be shitting my pants constantly for the next 9 months.
Only one cookie? Epliesy is like seziurs (sps?) right? You can still live a normal life with them, just have to be careful.
Yeah epilepsy has to do with the electrical signals sent back and forth in the brain. In people suffering from the disorder the signals go haywire every now and then causing seizures. You can cure it by separating the right and left hemispheres of the brain, but then that causes even more problems for the person. Like they could see something, but wouldn't be able to speak what it is.
EDIT: ha ha. I Googled epilepsy to make sure my definition was right and IT WAS! I am one smart cookie!
Misty, can epilepsy be passed down to your children?
I am careful. I've never had more than three drinks in one night, amongst other things. The procedure you described...I'm not sure if all epilepsy can be cured like that, as generalized epilepsy could still give you a partial seizure. And yes, more uber-problems.
Is epilepsy hereditry? Hitler certainly thought so. The Romans thought so. It's NOT. It is only passed on if the epilepsy is part of another, larger brain syndrome, i.e. a symptom. Most of the time when someone tells you they are epileptic they have Primary Generalized Epileptic Syndrome: the one that causes the nightmare-fodder seizures. It is idiopathic; nobody knows where the hell it's come from. On the family tree, nobody above me has it, nobody to the side of me has it, and nobody below me will have it. My brain has screwed itself, not anyone else's. So thankfully, I won't have to worry about passing my condition on; just the SB effect of my meds and any spazzing within that time.
Partial seizures are when the overdose of electrical energy is only in one lobe of the brain. My seizures are all over the brain. You may have heard of an 'aura' that signalls a big fit is on the way; that is a partial seizure. Myoclonic jerks - small split-second muscle jerks on the border of sleep and wakefulness are seizures, and many people have them. If someone has a type of epilepsy called Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, their partial fits are in the bit of brain above the ear, and is operable to cure it. (They take part of the temporal lobe out - proper big brain surgery here.) I've had a partial before...god, they're scary. I didn't know my name, where I was, what I was sup[posed to be doing...it was a good thing Kayleigh stayed with me. I only found out it was a partial when I went to the doctor's the next week.
