My Seizure: A life changing experience...

This happened maybe, a few days ago sunday morning, and I had a "seizure". A seizure is when your brain kinda shuts down and you start jerking and stuff...not good at all. There is also a sickness called epilepsy associated to patients with common seizures, but luckily, its something that I have not been diagnosed with. This is a kinda step by step recount on what happened that day...

6:00--> I wake up to go to the bathroom. Everything seems fine, and I simply take a bathroom break. I feel perectly fine, and don't expect anything bad to happen.

7:00--> My seizure occurs. I have no memory of this event; I was completely unconcious. I did not "wake up", so you can kinda say I had my seizure either seconds after I awoke or during my sleep. Either way, it was completely terrifying to my parents who saw me jerking...I was luckily they had already awoken. For the first few minutes, they thought I was maybe jerking in my sleep, so they tried to wake me up. When I started making stranging noises and the whites of my eyes were showing, they started to get scared. After many failed attempts to wake me up, my family was in a state of shock. Scared out of their minds, they called the Police, and 10 minutes later, an ambulence arrives.

7:15--> I am still unconscious. The paramedics and policemen try to wake me up, and soon put me on a stretcher. Already they are giving me various medicines to try and calm me down, and my mom even told me that because I was jerking so much, there was lots of blood. I was put on a stretcher and carried into an ambulence, which my dad went on. My mom and sister stayed at home. I am quickly pulled into the nearby hospital.

8:00--> I wake up. You might imagine how scared and confused I was; I had wires connected to every part of my body, surrounded by docters and nurses. A tube is stuck into my right arm, and my dad watches me from above. Confused, I begin to ask a ton of questions..."where am i? what happened? etc..." I was completely lost. Taken over by nausea (common after seizures), I decide to lie down in patience. At this time, I seem to have a vague recount of my time in the ambulence, and I almost seem to remember lying down with people surrounding me.

8:30--> While I am in the hospital I throw up twice, and they give me some more medicine to tend my nausea. My docter has explained to me of what has happened. I am still extremely sick, and I soon take some cat scans and brain tests to see what is wrong. Apparantly from an early blood test (probobaly on the ambulence), I have low levels of Pottasium. Low levels of pottasium is called "Hypokalemia", and can be dangerous if not treated. I am not sure if this caused the seizure, I am still getting check-ups and tests to find out even today.

9:00--> After my low pottasium discovery, the docters now need to treat my problem. That tube in my right arm is now feeding me pottasium. For some reason, pottasium burns, and I am in constant pain. I then sit around and wait. The docters around me are laughing and talking about many other things. There is a patient next to me whos feet are comepletely covered in blood. I'm not sure what he did, but he arrived later than me to the hospital. The pain from the pottasium continues for the next hour or two, during which I plan to sleep, hoping to ease the pain.

10-11:00--> Around this time, I wake up. The pottasium is still being fed into me, and I wince with pain. I look around, and I see my mom and sister, looking at me. With my great relief, the nurse is finishing up the pottasium feed. What I remember most about her is that she is extremely impatient, and did not seem like she belonged in the hospital . I asked her TONS of questions (imagine how confused I was) and she was impatient and quick to answer each one. The end of the pottasium feed eased my pain a lot, and she then proceeded to RIP off all of the wires monitering me (which hurt haha), and I slowly crawled out of bed. The nasuea is soothing down, and then I begin my walk home.

The next day, I did not go to school to go to the docters to see what was wrong. Apparantly there are still some blood tests that they need to look at.

Today, I feel fine. If you guys don't know what pottasium is, it like regulates ur blood flow or something, and is commonly found in fruits like bananas and tomates. This really scared my parents and me, and i REALLY hope this doesn't happen again...