Personal Narrative: A Life Changing My Life

One day that made all the other days seem to disappear. I woke up just like every other day, thinking all is well, only today is different, today is life changing. I’m a mother who has dedicated my entire life to my babies, and within a few hours, my whole life was turned upside down. My son has epilepsy, a seizure disorder that up until that day I knew nothing about. When you think of seizures, you think of thrashing around and foaming of the mouth, I sure did. For Blayk, my three year old son, yet, that was not the case. It started out that he was just quiet, which was not different from his normal disposition. A few minutes later, I noticed a spiked fever, followed by vomiting. To be honest, at this point, I didn’t think too much of his

symptoms. I was thinking a flu bug or maybe he had eaten something bad, until he was lying down and staring at me, but only he wasn’t staring at me. Instead, it looked as though he was staring right through me. I began to realized he was not just being quiet, he wasn’t able to speak. I could not tell you how I was feeling at this point; I just knew that it was time to panic. My husband and I rushed him to the nearest hospital. Every minute passing made it that much more clear that something was seriously wrong with my little boy. By the time we arrived at the hospital, it had been forty-five minutes and he had almost completely stopped breathing. I just remember the doctors asking a million questions, all while I’m begging them to save my babies life. I knew did not have the emotional capacity to grasp all that was happening. After a few long day and nights, they confirmed that my son has epilepsy. My perfectly healthy boy now has a condition that has no cure. Although that was the toughest days of my life, my son is thriving and I am so proud and inspired by that little boy’s strength and everlasting joyful spirit.