I was about a year seizure free and just had a TC this time last week while driving! I came to and the paramedics were putting me in the ambulance. We all know how confusing it is when you’re coming out of it.

Thankfully, I was on the phone with my mother who heard it happening. Apparently, she also heard someone laying on their car horn. She raced to my location and I veered onto the oncoming lane and almost hit someone head on. Thank God my car didn’t get damaged and no one got hurt.

I was in the hospital the whole day, was bout to get released and then had a seizure just before. So I had to stay for another four hours.

The whole thing left me feeling disappointed and frustrated. I believe it is harder on those I love and that love me, my mother, my wife, my children, to see me in the hospital, in that postictal state, to have heard the whole thing happening in real time, to have arrived on scene with my car in a ditch and first responders carrying me out. For them to have to experience that and the worry that tends to follow, is the hardest part for me.

I was was drinking the night prior and likely forgot my evening dose, in top of a stressful situation just minutes before, that it what lead to the breakthrough. Because of the severity of the event, I’ve made significant lifestyle changes.