I'm back from two weeks in Wales.

Lst Saturday we went to a concert in which our daughter ws playing. It ws
supposed to be in the open in the National Botanic Garden of Wales but
becuase of threatening rain it ws held in the glass house, an inconvenient
site to say the least.

We took our table into a small open space among Australian bushes. We
couldn't see but very few people could see anything anyway, the sound wasn't
all that good either. We shared the space with people at another table, we
all enjoyed our picnics and wine and tried to enjoy the concert.

Towards the end a girl on the other table had a grand mal. She seemed to
know it was coming, her companions obviously were used to it and dealt with
it very calmly and without fuss.

But others in the audience were staring at her all the time, it was awful.
If the orchestra hadn't been playing I'd have stood up and lectured them.
They should have been concentrating on the musical performance, not what
someone else was doing. I was embarrassed. I know that the girl wouldn't
have known about it but her companions must have to cope with that attention
often.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Shortly afterwards I had a simple partial which of course wasn't obvious to
anyone but I wanted to say, "Hey, look at me, I'm having a fit"" After all,
both seizures are different manifestations of epilepsy, why should that
girl's have been worth watching when mine wasn't?

Sorry to rant!

Nice to be back.

Mary