I Am Living With Epilepsy

Yesterday evening I had a seizure with no aura. That doesn't happen very often for me. I usually get enough of an aura that I can at least sit down on the floor. This time though, no warning at all. I was on my way home from work. Had just got off the bus and apparently a passerby saw me stop walking and start fumbling with my coat and then just collapse to the floor into the seizure. He and another man who was walking his dog called an ambulance.

By the time the paramedics arrived the seizure was over and I was starting to come round but I was very confused and combative. I also had a gash to my forehead where I'd hit it on the pavement. I don't remember but apparently I was fighting the paramedics, saying I didn't want to go to hospital but because I had a head injury they had to take me in to get checked out.

Luckily, one of the paramedics had been out to me before and recognised me. She realised that this isn't my normal behaviour post seizure and also knew that I have epilepsy and that this wasn't drink or drug related. Which is always something I worry about as a youngish woman.

I spent hours and hours in A&E being observed for a head injury and finally they let me go home because my boyfriend would be there to keep an eye on me. But I really hate this. I hate that it happened. I hate that I had to take today off work because I still feel exhausted from the seizure and foggy from the concussion. I just want to be "normal" sometimes.