Definitely more trauma for the owner/parent. :) Those feelings prior to the seizures are called auras and they sure do come in different flavors. Some people smell flowers, other's fruit or their favorite food. I don't ever recall anyone saying they were unpleasant though.
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:34, charlierom2003 <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > If it's any consolation, I've been working with seizure patients from > years, > > and afterwards, they don't remember anything traumatic or negative, and > > seldom injure themselves. So what I'm trying to say, Nuggie should not be > > experiencing any pain, just some memory lapses. << > > I am reminded that the great Russian author Dostoevsky suffered from > epilepsy, which is his case was preceeded in each seizure by the greatest > sense of ecstacy! Here he describes the sensation in the character of Prince > Myshkin, which follows closely from his personal experience: > > 'He was thinking, incidentally, that there was a moment or two in his > epileptic condition almost before the fit itself (if it occurred in waking > hours) when suddenly amid the sadness, spiritual darkness and depression, > his brain seemed to catch fire at brief moments....His sensation of being > alive and his awareness increased tenfold at those moments which flashed by > like lightning. His mind and heart were flooded by a dazzling light. All his > agitation, doubts and worries, seemed composed in a twinkling, culminating > in a great calm, full of understanding...but these moments, these > glimmerings were still but a premonition of that final second (never more > than a second) with which the seizure itself began.' > > Of course this is a bit of a sidetrack here, but perhaps an interesting > one, and perhaps the pups seizures are, like Dostoevsky's, not entirely > unpleasant. Having had a chihuahua with epilepsy, I do know the seizures are > unpleasant for the owner, no doubt. > > >
