Prologue

…and just like that, one moment we were having a bit of an argument about money and he fell on the floor. It all seems like a blur now, but I remember three things going through my head by process of elimination.... 1. Is he messing around? Is he that angry that he is purposely smashing his head and thrashing around? 2. Oh crap! I don’t think he’s messing around 3. Oh my god! He might be having a seizure! What the hell do I do?
 

So I called 000.

I put my 14 month old in the cot, told her Mummy loves her and I am sorry but I need to help daddy right now. I spoke to the man on the other end of 000, not knowing what had just happened or what will happen once the nightmare was over. I explained exactly what happened, what he was going through, talked through the fact this was the first time, how the thrashing slowed down eventually and by that time the paramedic had arrived. The seizure lasted 10 minutes. The most frightening 10 minutes of our life.

My 29 year old fiancé, had indeed had a seizure. The paramedic was sure it was just a stress seizure and it was, ‘normal’, something to this day I would disagree with. It was not normal and it is not something anyone should go through in day to day life....But with this seizure brought complete emotional and spiritual change and we are glad that this mystery seizure scared us shitless to be a catalyst to a complete change in our life.