‘I woke up in the ambulance and said, ‘Where am I?’.’
“Anything could have happened. It is pretty scary, when you think about it.”Credit:Most concerning though, is that about 50 per cent of those affected, as with Balme, are without a known cause.That’s why he is working as an ambassador for the Walk For Epilepsy fundraising campaign to help end the stigma of the condition.
The Tigers champion, who also spent time as an administrator at Geelong and Collingwood, had two more seizures following the first scare. “I was battling a little bit and even my wife and kids say ‘You were a bit insular, you weren’t yourself for a while’,” he said.Luckily for the 71-year-old, medication controls his condition now — but some aren’t so fortunate.
For around 30 per cent of epilepsy patients, medication can’t do anything, which means they will have unpredictable seizures.“They live with a background of uncertainty about what’s going to happen to them,” she said.“I believe everything you’ve got, you’re better off getting it out there, talking about it — you’re not going to fix it by denying it,” he said.
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