MaddieChilver
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Hello everyone,
My name is Maddie, i am currently 16 years old and i have only just joined this lovely community. i wanted to share my story to see if there is many other people out there like me.
in 2021 i had 3 seizures, one morning i got up out of the caravan and did my normal routine as always and packed up to go home from a family holiday in the gold coast. i sat in the car and next thing i know i am in an ambulance on the way to the hospital i had absolutely no idea what was going on. i had my mum next to me crying saying its ok sweetheart but i was still so unaware of what was going on. so i got to the hospital and they siad i had a seizure, my seizure went for 5 mins and apparently i stopped breathing and went all blue. i stayed there for about 9 hours and then went back to the caravan park for the night they siad we are fine to drive home just be careful and need to have a few follow up tests at the hospital near where i live. about a month later i had another one after i finished work i helped mum carry the food shopping in and apparently i was doing circles near the car and hit my head and got a big cut on it. this one was shorter and my family wore more calm and knew what to do. now there was farther investigations on this one i had to have an eeg, a couple mri and ct scan, lots of blood work was being done and they couldn't find much. anyways after my eeg results came back it siad i have epilepsy. i got really heart broken and annoyed at myself becasue i am a indepent person and love doing things by myself but now i was very limited to the things i could do especially not being able to drive and get my hours up or going swimming after school with my friends on the river it makes me sad not being able to have as much freedom. anyways im hoping to meet people like me that can help. thank you
My name is Maddie, i am currently 16 years old and i have only just joined this lovely community. i wanted to share my story to see if there is many other people out there like me.
in 2021 i had 3 seizures, one morning i got up out of the caravan and did my normal routine as always and packed up to go home from a family holiday in the gold coast. i sat in the car and next thing i know i am in an ambulance on the way to the hospital i had absolutely no idea what was going on. i had my mum next to me crying saying its ok sweetheart but i was still so unaware of what was going on. so i got to the hospital and they siad i had a seizure, my seizure went for 5 mins and apparently i stopped breathing and went all blue. i stayed there for about 9 hours and then went back to the caravan park for the night they siad we are fine to drive home just be careful and need to have a few follow up tests at the hospital near where i live. about a month later i had another one after i finished work i helped mum carry the food shopping in and apparently i was doing circles near the car and hit my head and got a big cut on it. this one was shorter and my family wore more calm and knew what to do. now there was farther investigations on this one i had to have an eeg, a couple mri and ct scan, lots of blood work was being done and they couldn't find much. anyways after my eeg results came back it siad i have epilepsy. i got really heart broken and annoyed at myself becasue i am a indepent person and love doing things by myself but now i was very limited to the things i could do especially not being able to drive and get my hours up or going swimming after school with my friends on the river it makes me sad not being able to have as much freedom. anyways im hoping to meet people like me that can help. thank you