I didn't recognize his face. Turning him on his side, I reached up with my left hand and turned off the shower. Then I gently held him just as he was, rigid as a board, jerking and hissing, rolling his eyes, emitting gutteral sounds from the depth of his soul, finishing his dream. Yet he believed that the disorder had nothing to do with the world of the spirit and everything to do with the brain. Nearly two millennia passed before that view began to be accepted, in the 19th century.
History is punctuated with famous people who had epilepsy.
Julius Caesar had it. So did Peter the Great and Lord Byron and Fydor Dostoevsky. But a storm preceded, it appears, by neurons acting dangerously in concert , as musicians in a symphony orchestra, a pattern that shows up minutes before a seizure. The calm before the storm. Juggling Pills R obbie's seizure was the kind most people are familiar with.