Embarrassing seizure stories

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valeriedl said:
When I was in line at a grocery store once I had a seizure and just sat down on the floor. The cashier had already checked out everything in the buggy so my husband got my purse off of me and started going through it so he could pay for the groceries then he started to try to get me off of the floor but I wouldn't budge. When he finally got me up he basically pulled me out to the car, pushing the cart and he was carrying my purse. He was scared to death that the cops were going to get called because someone was going to think that he'd stole money out of my purse then was abducting me to do who know's what?
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I've had seizures in the checkout line in grocery stores before. It took everything I had to fight past the seizure and pay then I get out in the parking lot just standing so I know people thought I was stoned out of my mind as people were looking at me.
 
travel bug said:
Once while sweeping up after mowing I had one of my simple partial motor seizures. I remained completely conscious the whole time while twisted up like a pretzel on the ground. I had let out an "epileptic scream" and drew the attention of a cute guy I had seen jogging past just seconds earlier. Not the way I wanted to meet the guy. :P During the several minutes I was lying there unable to move with my face smashed into the ground and arm flailing behind me in the air, I could hear quite the crowd gathering around me.

Then last September on my way to San Francisco to have my recurring brain tumor removed, I had a seizure that started as simple partial motor then generalized just as I was preparing to change planes in Dallas. I'm not embarrassed about having the seizure, I just feel bad that I delayed the other passengers from getting off and maybe making someone miss their connecting flight.
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"Twisted up like a pretzel" LOL I don't think I twist up but all my muscles stiff up. Oh I've fallen many times in public from seizures or I'll say something that you wouldn't expect which is usually hilarious.
 
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