This past Wednesday was Purple Shirt Day, AKA Epilepsy Awareness Day. Last year Lee-Anne spent it getting an intra-cranial exam for her seizures, which even the surgeon called "auspicious" timing.
She was offered to have her first procedure done on the same day this year, which felt like fate. However, due to the short notice and some things happening on our end, she felt she couldn't do it at the time. Didn't take much speed out of things, it just got scheduled a week later.
Obviously I've been supportive in her taking the lead on how this is managed. Still, a small part of me wished it would happen on Epilepsy Awareness Day. I'm a little superstitious, and the fact that she would be getting treatment for her seizures on such a day twice in a row seemed like a writer's choice. Even taking the aspect of fate out of it, there might be a psychological component. No doctor wants to screw up a treatment for a condition on the day its dedicated to.
But she still spent March 27th doing epilepsy-adjacent things. Before the big event happening this coming week, she needed to have a few tests done to make sure she's in condition to do it. This means that she travelled up to Brampton to stay with her parents on Wednesday so that she could transport herself to the hospital in Toronto on Thursday and Friday.
I wore my tie-dyed purple shirt for Epilepsy Awareness Day. I forgot to remind people at work about it so participation wound up low. A few of the members did wear purple though. When one of them saw what I was wearing, he even said "Epilepsy Day!" He definitely made an intentional outfit choice.
However, another member saw that he matched us and chimed in to announce his contribution. I asked him why he was wearing purple. He threw up his hands and shouted "It's Wednesday!"
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