THE CATCH 22 OF CHRISTMAS OR ANY HOLIDAY FOR THAT FACT

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  Holidays especially the HOHOHO one I find tend to dump lot's of tension and stress on me in two different ways. The first way is my epilepsy and how it effects me around the season. Yes the season is wonderful and you get to see your friends your family and you have the festive season on your mind. When everything is running around your mind it can bring on seizures, because true its a happy time an awesome time. However there is still that stress factor we fell and it brings out the seizures. So why simple even good stress can play hard on our body and trigger our epilepsy. 

 I find epilepsy has a sweat spot in age during the Christmas season especially, I will explain. Ok so we as people with epilepsy have our "Santa 🎅 " years and the building and building exciting stuff is the stress that isn't bad I was referring to. Then we have our teenage early adult years. It can be stressful especially if there aren't kids involved. Now we might have nieces nephew's and that can add stress.

 Then we have the parent years something I know nothing about personally but know from friend's. All the running around is very stressful at normal times, then you throw in Christmas and can really trigger seizures for people.

 What's the other part of my catch 22 oh that's simple its my CHD. I as said think Christmas is a wonderful time. Great time with loved ones we have in our life. But shopping sometimes can be stressful and mentally emotionally draining a person and it effects our hearts. We get a pinching feeling and sometimes just can't breathe or feel that way. 

 CHD also hits us around or me around the holiday season because we need sleep and some nights that sleep just isn't there, I found that too especially be true this year. All this year both my CHD and epilepsy have skyrocketed to different levels. So yes i definitely see holiday times as a catch 22 but wouldn't trade for anything.

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