How May A Stranger React To Someone Having A Seizure In A Public Place?

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I have had people react in two different ways.
1. Someone reacts in a way that makes everybody near them feel like they are witnessing a catastrophe and they all become scared because they don't know what to do.
2. Someone reacts in a very calm way because they know what to do, and how to do it.
I have had both happen. The best is when a person stays calm. When this happens, the other people near that area, may NOT even realize that a seizure was happening.:clap:
Are there any more different ways that people may react?

ACsHuman
 
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when ppl over react it makes matters worse. To make matters worse this is when it is dr's and nurses at hospitals; that do this quite often with me.
 
There is always the indifferent person who just steps over the seizing person and keeps on going.
 
Indifferent People

I have seen people gather close to the person having a seizure and stand there staring down at them. This kind of nosiness could very well scare the person who is having the seizure so much that they have another seizure immediately when they see all of those strange faces looking down at them!:ponder:

ACsHuman
 
Hi AC,
I went to see my family Dr. and when I was leaving I had a seizure and hit the floor, when I came to a bunch of Drs. were standing around me looking puzzled and then the next thing I knew an ambulance was there. I asked the Drs. "Why did you call the ambulance and they told me they didn't know what to do?" How weird is that, I was embarrassed not to mention angry that a few Drs. didn't know what to do when I had the seizure so I ended seeing that Dr. Here's wishing you well and May God Bless You!

Sue
 
Porkette said:
Hi AC,
I went to see my family Dr. and when I was leaving I had a seizure and hit the floor, when I came to a bunch of Drs. were standing around me looking puzzled and then the next thing I knew an ambulance was there. I asked the Drs. "Why did you call the ambulance and they told me they didn't know what to do?" How weird is that, I was embarrassed not to mention angry that a few Drs. didn't know what to do when I had the seizure so I ended seeing that Dr. Here's wishing you well and May God Bless You!

Sue
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Yep I can't blame regular people. Even though I wear tags that say I have epilepsy, they just see me laying there and think it's a heart attack or something. So they call the fire dept. (which doubles here as paramedics). The paramedics aren't trained that much. However they do the best they can.
I do blame doctor's and nurses. They should know better.
Fortunately that has only happened to me a couple of times. What really P.Oed me is one time my sister was with me and she tried to tell the ambulance crew (for some reason that time they came instead of the regular paramedics) not to take me to the hospital. They took me and the nurses and Docs. were freaking out. They should have known better. Heck my sister was trying to tell them what it was.

Oh I just edited this because I had forgotten this: I went to see a Memory Dr. (yeah ironic I had forgotten that this happened when I went to see a memory Dr.) and had a seizure while in the building (which is an annex. to a hospital). Even though my sister told them not to someone saw me slumped against the wall and they took me the the emergency room there. We both were STEAMED.
Usually people call the paramedics and by the time they get there (even though it's fast) I'm rousing up. I tell them what's what. If it's not to far they give me a ride home on the fire truck which is kind of cool.
 
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I had a TC seizure once at a large outdoor flea marked. I was laying on the ground shaking like crazy but everyone just walked by staring at me. My husband called 911 and security, I think that's what they were, from the flea market came and just kept people away from me until the ambulance got there.

I had a complex partial in a grocery store line once where I just sat down on the floor and wouldn't move. The woman behind me asked my husband if I wanted a Tic Tac because she though my blood sugar was low. She also thought I might be in sugar shock too.

People just don't know what seizures are like now.
 
Why Is E Known About Less Than Other Conditions?

valeriedl,
Your description of what happened in the checkout line is very common. People seem to be very accepting towards conditions like asthma, sugar levels, etc., but they know NOTHING about E and most don't want to know anything, because of the myths about E that have been passed down for centuries!

ACsHuman
 
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