# @embracingecho on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOOme5rkWkF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61853023-embracingecho-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/f220b684e2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-09-05T17:05:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jaime Simpson (@embracingecho) — https://gondola.cc/embracingecho

## Caption

It took me 20 minutes to become aware and coherent again. I had to cut our home camera footage down because it was extremely long. This was a breakthrough seizure as I had been doing extremely well since my blood patches. Ruben was home fast due to the ipuppee button.

I didn’t realize that I was forgetting things or started to do things that didn’t make sense/ never got finished  before the grand mal seizure until watching this back. This in itself could be a sign of focal seizures.

I am typically not just so still, confused, and trying to figure out my own consciousness in and out of focal seizures before a grand mal. Even the grand mal seemed slightly different looking back. My medication for epilepsy is so hard on your psyche so I tried to reduce the dosage slowly since I hadn’t had seizures in a while. It didn’t really go to plan so back to the main dose. (If you’re my doctor and you just read that, no you didn’t). 😅

Once the grand mal seizure began my face changed colors through a variety of shades and then back to normal. It has always been a fear of mine for me to have a seizure in front of people. I think posting them advocates for epilepsy but also took some of that fear away by letting me have some control in allowing others to watch. (I have had a handful of seizures in public).

Echo and I have been working on bringing pillows before the seizure lately due to past injuries. He did great bringing rescue meds but by the time I got them, I wasn’t very coherent and couldn’t even grasp that I was holding medication to stop the seizures. 

Rescue medication can stop both focal and grand mal seizures but focal seizures are harder for a dog to scent to. 

Im thankful that Echo can prepare me before bigger seizures. Sometimes he even prevents them. More importantly, I’m so blessed to have a dog that loves me and his job. 

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