2008 Aug - Is Epilepsy like Eczema?

Eczema and Epilepsy



As I lay here in bed holding the left hand of Lubricia gently I feel it twitch ever so slight. She told me two months ago that these involuntary spasms were a result of her epilepsy or the result of an acute attack when she was a teenager. I had not noticed them in a year of knowing her intimately. So obviously they were a greater issue in her mind than in the real world. She had thought all along that I felt these spasms during our intimate moments of tenderness and our intimate moments of carnal pleasure. Let me state once again, I had not. But this situation brought me to the conclusion that this is how I have always felt about my eczema or asthma, namely that I always think that others are aware of it when they tell me that they actually are not.



Let’s go a bit deeper with the parallel set of situations. If eczema is like epilepsy then eczema, which has no definite scientific explanation, is a form of epilepsy. What a monstrous accusation. I am not epileptic. I have never had any brain damage and I have never had any epileptic fit. Well that is if you don’t call an unforeseen acute attack of itchiness as one. What if it is? What if an acute attack of itchiness is an epileptic fit and that chronic itchiness is like these minute spasms that Lubricia feels in her left arm and maybe elsewhere in her body. Preposterous!



Now as I lay beside her in bed watching a movie several days later I unknowingly hold her left hand again. I love holding her hand when we are watching a movie together. I don’t know why. It just feels so natural and so right. It feels great. It feels good and comforting. Then the tremors in her arm start. I don’t think they happen all the time. I think they get stronger when she gets upset, excited or emotional about something. And then it hits me. That is when I often get bouts of itchiness. So my emotional jumps produce epileptic tremors o itchiness. Could this be so? Could this explain the universe of eczema? Let me try a bizarre experiment. When I scratch my itchy spot my itchiness stays away. That means my epileptic tremor stays away. So if I now, scratch Lubrica’s arm then her tremors will still away too. From yesterdays erotic back scratching moment I know she likes nails on her skin, particularly the back of a set of nails that are not so sharp. Is this her way of unconsciously telling someone that the way to alleviate her epileptic tremors is to touch her, if not scratch her. Slowly I drag the back of the nails which are on my left hand through the palm of her left hand. She groans to say she likes it. I feel brave now so I drag them up her arm and down again like a lost snail which has just crawled out of a glass of Rioja Crianza red wine. The epileptic tremors in her arm stop. I meander up and down her arm every so slowly dragging my nails behind. She moans and groans. The epileptic tremors don’t return. So maybe it’s true. Eczema is a form of epilepsy not an allergic reaction to substances.



Conclusion:

You can stop epileptic tremors by a caress if not by light scratching. Maybe a person who suffers from epilepsy does not need pills at all but only needs a tender exciting long lasting touch from another human soul just like someone who has eczema, like me, and you.