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diabeticman

(3,121 posts)
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:35 PM Apr 2013

My wife worked with her client tonight

her "friend" offered her some hours at the house but between the friend and the client my wife is wondering if the friend is a friend.

Yes the client has some mental problems and epilepsy but the client has said a few rude things today and rearranging and shelves and closets.

also my wife believed the client might be getting ready for a seizure because the woman was stating how she was seeing streaks of color lights and how the tv screen seemed foggy like the picture was cloudy.

My wife called her friend who is the house supervisor and the friend was like getting because attitude use my wife was warning her this seizure might be happening soon. This friend would be the one emergency responders would be calling. She is close to having POA on the client.

You would think this friend would realize my wife knows more than she wants to give my wife credit for.


Keep your fingers cross my wife finds a new company soon

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FarPoint

(12,336 posts)
2. I would focus on clarifying if the client was taking meds as prescribed.
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:44 PM
Apr 2013

Break thru seizures occur but much less frequently compared to non compliance of prescribed meds. Question ...has a level been checked lately? So contacting the physician appears indicated.

FarPoint

(12,336 posts)
6. That does not guarantee the client is taking her meds...
Sun Apr 7, 2013, 12:37 AM
Apr 2013

I'm suspicious of one having a possible pre-seizure aura....typically they are not taking meds as prescribed or the dose is not therapeutic for some reason....Going to ER for a drug level could answer that question definitely...for example, if the drug is dilantin...get a dilantin level. Just saying the focus is on the client.

Your wife is a good soul. She did all she could do....turned it over to the one in charge.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
4. I have what they call aura migranes...it is a rainbow that grows
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:50 PM
Apr 2013

from a speck to my entire visual spectrum...at one time....when I had pain from a gall bladder attack, and took mucho aspirin, Alieve and my friends 'muscle relaxers' I had a seizure..which turned out discovered my gall bladder problem..

But because of that seizure I have EXTREME stress when I have that aura

As a teen I had actual migraine headaches..I much prefer the aural ones

diabeticman

(3,121 posts)
5. my wife feels for you. She has suffer migraines since she was a teenager. It seems she
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:57 PM
Apr 2013

inherit aged from her mother and Grandmother and her sister suffers them as well.

She said she only saw colors once and that was when she was 18 it was a hot summer day and was suffering a killer migraine and when she closed her eyes she saw blue circles.

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