Epilepsy: My Story

Chapter 1: First Seizure

When I was 13 years old, on the 12th July 2014, I had my first seizure.

Please Note: I had to get my mum to help me write this chapter as I don't remember what happened

This is how my mum told me it happened

I got home from school, and did my homework and had dinner. Apparently, I didn't look well and I kept on saying that I felt dizzy and had a headache but no one thought nothing of it because I got headaches and felt dizzy quite often.

I went upstairs to watch TV in my room, then my mum said that she heard this thud on the floor.

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My mum told me she'd found me on the floor convulsing (shaking), I was unconscious, and she said I had foam coming out of my mouth. I had also bitten through my tongue, so there was blood all over the floor.

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My mum called for an ambulance (obviously) and she said that there were two ambulance motorbikes, one ambulance car and one ambulance van.

I vaguely remember waking up and seeing a paramedic standing up next to me, but it's only a second in my memory.

The paramedics told my mum that I have had a seizure, and I won't remember anything from that day and I won't feel completely better until a few days later.

The only way to describe my memory of this day, is like a video and someone's edited most of it out but left literally two seconds of the memory in my brain

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I hope you like this chapter and the idea of this book, and I hope you'll read the next chapter x