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I was diagnosed with epilepsy in September of 2014. It was Labor Day Weekend and I was making a fruit bowl for our family picnic. I began shaking and quickly became lightheaded. The next thing I remembered, I was laying on the floor and my eyes slowly opened. I didn't know what had happened, my previous thoughts became vague . It was the strangest encounter I've ever had. I was laying on the kitchen floor and tears began to flood my eyes. I remember my son crying the whole time, he seen the whole episode transpire and it frightened him like nothing else.
My family begged me to go to the emergency department but I refused. I was stubborn and there was no denying that. I got up and slowly walked into the bathroom to splash some cold water on my face. By this time I felt a little bit better and on point.
I went back into the kitchen to continue slicing up the fruit that I had previously been working on. Everything was fine. I was feeling a little fatigue but I was a mom of an eight year old child, why wouldn't I be?
About forty minutes later it was time to eat so we were all carrying dishes and plates outside to the picnic area where lunch would soon be served. I was carrying out a bowl of baked beans and suddenly lost my balance falling head first to the ground. I woke up shaking like a leaf, once again but this time I must have bit the inside of my lip because I was bleeding. This time my mother called 911. We were at our family's camp out in God's country a.k.a. the middle of nowhere. I was terrified. The first seizure I had I thought I passed out because I had been sick the week before, but the following. Not so much.
The paramedics pulled into the driveway thirty minutes later, and I seized for the third time in the presence of both EMT's. Subsequent to their arrival, they quickly loaded me into the back of the vehicle and drove me forty miles away to Meadville Medical Center. I was admitted for three nights, mainly for observation. CAT Scans and MRI's indicated that no tumors were present in my brain. That was a relief. All these years later they believe it's a result of my car accident injuries from 2007. In almost four years I had been seizure free until last week.
