Thursday, September 01, 2005

earlier tonight at kc grill with my t khala, her family and some of their friends skimming through my cousin's phone pics and distracted i look out of the window and i see a woman on the floor and people gathering around. trying to assess the situation from where i was it was clear that she was having a seizure. that a kid about our age had pushed her on her side to not allow her to swallow her tongue and that they were just waiting it out. it seemed as if it was all under control. all of a sudden i notice one of those people is t khala and another is smalls. so as t khala waved to me i went out there. almost automatically with my steps towards the door to the exit i'm trying to figure out oh grand mal, petit mal or focal? i'm not sure. how long has it lasted? maybe that'll help me determine it. how will the condition be remedied? maybe her neurons will undergo fatigue. my pace quickens. how did it happen? some sort of rapid stimuli. now i'm not even thinking about what i've studied. just what i know from having a friend with such a predisposition. i'm there in seconds but i'm so doubtful. is she on medication? what kind? what if this isn't a seizure? i'm crouched with her and her son. soothing her. she asks for water. no i almost yelled. nothing to drink right now. she says she wants it on her face. so we cool her off. maybe she thought that would calm her. now i know that this hasn't happened before with her. she's talking coherently but she can't help her twitching. i have no idea why t khala splashed water on her feet. i'll have to ask her. we had requested the crowd to leave and were trying to give her privacy. with t khala, smalls and i as strangers there to help because she was a woman and her 2 sons and her husband feeling pretty strange around us women we waited in silence for things to smooth over. right then i realized what a high it was. when we got back to our tables uncle o [random fake uncle who's a family friend but shows up so much he might as well be family] was joking around and saying doctor fail to me. i protested but then i realized i didn't do anything for this. operation dinner out [get it?] but really. when do i start doing stuff??? there is so much i still don't know! and there is so much i doubt because i don't want to rush into anything

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