...You need a large datebook to keep track of what's going on and then forget an appointment because you don't even remember having the darn thing.

... Your epi is on speed dial

... You can't remember how you got there, and then forget where you came from

... You can read advanced neuroscience textbooks and can actually understand

...You are no longer surprised but intrigued by bizarre side effects or new kinds of involuntary movements

...Your medication bill is higher then your food bill

...The ER has a coffee mug with your husbands name on it

...Your insurance company sends a 'Thinking of you' card if they don't receive a bill from you every two weeks

...The hospital invites you to the ribbon cutting of a new wing just because of all the money you've spent there

...You realize how many movies you have gone to but haven't seen the end of.

...You don't call walking heel-toe down the hall or touching your finger to your nose a sobriety test, you call it a party trick

...You can sleep while the magnets pound away during a MRI

...Your VNS magnet sticks to all the shopping carts at the supermarket

...You're sure that you've been everywhere before, even though you go nowhere

...Your dentist wears thick leather gloves

...You feel safer walking thru the woods than on the sidewalks

...You know all the neuro jargon in the world, but cannot remember for the life of you what you had for dinner

...Your memory is so bad that you have to use a pill minder; and you pull it out 2 and 3 times a night to make SURE that you took them

...You create your own reminder system, but can't figure out why it doesn't work. See, it's blank, bc you can not remember where you put it, then you have forgotten what you needed it for anyway!

...It doesn't feel weird to sit in the passenger seat of your own car

...The doctor with the big needle is more afraid of you than you are of him ...Your insurance card: don't leave home without it.

...You let your runny nose turn into a full-blown, can�t-move-a-muscle cold because you don�t want to take any more medication.

...Calling someone a jerk takes on a whole new meaning.

...You can decode the following: I was dx'd with JME by my epi with an EEG, (had MRI and CT), Rx was Lamictal 100 mg p.o. tid, which controlled the jerks, absence, SP's, atonics, and GTC's
......There isn't really a 'decoding' step involved

...You use left over meds to make a bead chest

...You find car keys in your home only to realize you have no car

...You invite the local EMTs over to family dinners

...Your dog tells you when to sit, not the other way around

...You choose your next drug based purely on predicted side effects

...The focus of your next job interview is not the work but the health benefits

...Jewelry shopping consists of the most recent Medic Alert...

...You wake up with a morning-after feeling and you never had a night-before

...All the names in your little black book end either in M.D. or PHD.

...When the price of gas doesn't seem to bother you anymore

...Your hearing is still so good, you can hear a pin drop, but you just can't remember where.

...Others ask how you lost so much weight.

...You know all the nurses in the ER by first name.

...Yneed both your fingers AND toes to count all the pills you take in 24hrs.

...Going someplace by yourself seems like a real adventure.

...Neighboors don't gawk out their windows anymore when an ambulance in your driveway.

...You don't have to overeat to gain weight -- you just take a pill.

...You don't have to buy sleeping pills.