MY VERY LAST SEIZURE

Like any day I had a seizure, it would be one moment I’m playing on the school playground during lunch, and then the next moment I wake up on the couch hours later with a massive headache. From flashing lights, to lack of sleep, and to anxiety, I’d have seizures for many different reasons.

I was having seizures common enough that I decided that I wanted to start tracking my seizures for how often I was having them and what was the cause of each one.

So on February 25th, 2005 I had a seizure. I woke up on the couch after having a seizure and decided “today is the day I start tracking them”.

I immediately walked up to my bedroom, grabbed a black sharpie, and wrote an ‘X’ on my calendar hanging on the wall.

Since I’ve written that one ‘X’ on February 25th, 2005 on the calendar, I’ve literally never had a seizure ever again. Ever.

I was 9 years old at this time.

Now that I’m 26 (as I write this I’m going 17 years seizure-free), each year on February 25th, I reflect and question myself how the hell I manifested that. Like I remember my 9-year-old self just patiently waiting for my next seizure to occur so I could keep tracking my seizures… but it just never happened again and never knew why.

So what really stopped my seizures?

Honestly… The conclusion I’ve come to, is that I made a Quantum Declaration to the Universe (without even realizing it) that this is the day my seizure chapters ends.

And never in a million years did I ever think that the simple act of writing an X on my calendar would change the trajectory of my life forever.