I think what happened is I was about to get ready for school, maybe, and my mum heard a bang and came upstairs and found me seizing on the floor. Another seizure, I went into status epilepticus, so I was taken into hospital, and ended up in intensive care because it took a long while to control me. I was in intensive care for three days. And that’s when I discovered that I had epilepsy after that. But I didn’t believe anyone that I had it – I though, that can’t be right!
To be diagnosed with epilepsy at sixteen – it’s very difficult, as I said, for me to remember as my memory’s affected – but I know that I didn’t believe it and I wasn’t very good at taking the medication, because I didn’t think I could have epilepsy. Because why should I have epilepsy? You know, it’s not the sort of thing that I would have because I am, as you say, normal! Because you don’t think you’re going to have it. I thought all my friend would disown me, and I’d never get a boyfriend or get married or have children. Or, no one would want to be friends with me anymore – that’s what I felt at the time. So I didn’t want to have it. And I thought they were wrong!
