A momentary lapse of awareness

Well I guess it finally happened, or more precisely, damn it, it finally happened. I had a seizure yesterday. Of course it was the first day of the year (and my first seizure...boo), so I've already started it out with an extraordinary bang of sorts. I was in Athens for two nights seeing lots of old friends and meeting new ones all in the same go. Of course I had a few drinks both nights, got little sleep, and missed some of my medications, so I can't really blame it for happening to me. We were there for three total days and on the morning of the third, I got up to take some medication and went to the bathroom. Staring at myself in the mirror, I felt odd: light headed and like I was on the verge of losing consciousness. I put my hands down to brace myself then felt my legs give out. That's all I remember. When I came around my roommates, Josh and Max, eventually said I had had a seizure not long ago, and my best buddy Kevin was on his way down to help out as much as he could (he's a medic in the Navy, so that makes sense to me). I think it rather freaked them out, but natural to that state, I couldn't really help it. We got down to the hospital, and the doctor said everything looked really good (other than the gaping whole in my brain of course). Then we headed out and began our journey home.

For some reason that seizure had a rather profound affect on me. I didn't feel it, didn't experience it, but somehow, I feel different now. Strangely enough, when I was in the hospital, somehow I knew that's where I needed to be at the end of the day. I guess that's the path I'll be taking now. I'm going to start off with a brief Phlebotomy class and work my way up from there. In the end, I'd like to be an MRI tech. It's good money, and I'd have lots of other time to do things that I'm interested in. More than anything else, this plan has actually stuck with me for more than a fleeting moment (which is more than I can say for most of my other hair-brained schemes). Hey, they hospital's one of the few industries that's actually really growing right now, so I guess that's good.

While the plans a long way from coming into fruition, and I still have two more college courses to take, it seems pretty solid to me. Somehow as I was lying in the hospital bed that day for the umpteenth time in a few months, I realized that's what I wanted to do. I can work wherever I want, however I want, I can travel, or just work when they need me. It sounds like my ideal job...so far. There's more I'll have to learn about it as I dig into it further, but I'm fairly excited so far. Hopefully, I can convince these hospital folks to take me in with all this brain tumor business going on.