"Today, I had a seizure. I thought the lifeguard would save me but turns out they managed to knock themself out because they panicked. The ambulance took them to hospital, forgetting about me. FML" Poor woman.

Maybe you should get a new job.

This has to be a fake. Someone having a seizure is not something to panic over as a lifeguard, being one myself you get extensive training in this area, plus as #96 said, going into shock would not cause you to walk into a tree. make up better stories.

wow one of the few stories that actually qualify as an FML...you are a failure as a human being, your life is f***ed

#83 - vfib!? Are you kidding me? You're not going to be seizing and in vfib. You're dead when you're in vfib. As in, you're not moving at all let alone seizing. Don't really know where you pulled that one from... #96, 98, and the others that made comments like this - Not everyone becomes postical. Yes, people CAN walk away from a seizure in a matter of minutes and it's no big deal. And no, the ambulance will not definitely transport. If the patient has a history of seizures, and they don't want to go, I wouldn't make them go (I meaning me, as in I'm a paramedic). I've transported a child that has 3 or 4 sometimes more seizures in a day. It happens. People seize and don't go to the hospital all the time. It's a bigger deal if it's a firstt time seizure especially post trauma. And then lots of kids have febrile seizures. There's a handful of different types of seizures, all of which are legit.

Some lifeguard you are! How'd you get past training?

what the ****? why are you a lifeguard if you can't handle shit like that?

38 - your post just proved why you should never rely on fictional tv shows for information on how to deal with medical emergencies 1) It is 100 percent impossible to swallow your tongue. No one in the history of earth has ever swallowed their tongue during a seizure. The most that can happen is the tongue will roll back blocking the airway - all you need to do to avoid that is to turn the person on their side and let them be. 2) Holding their head has absolutely nothing to do with swallowing their tongue (see number 1). If no soft item is around you put their head in your lap so they aren't repeatedly busting it against a hard floor or ground. If there is something soft, you don't touch their head at all (other than to put the soft item under it.) 3) It is very difficult to know when someone is having a seizure. The type of seizure you are referring to is the rarest type of seizure to have. A child having absence seizures at a rate of 100 times a day, typically isn't diagnosed until 6 years of teachers reporting the problems - even epileptologists wathing VEEGs and looking for this type of seizure tend to miss most of them. Many people ahve been arrested, tasered, and charged with resisting arrest because they were having a complex partial seizure in front of police - and thats both the most common type of seizure to have, and the one that is the most difficult to control with medicine and surgeries. I've had seizures at work, at school, while driving, while talking with friends - if I hadn't told people I was having a seizure they never would have known. I had seizures for 5 years before getting a diagnosis as a teen - I was telling people what was going on but no one believed that feeling could happen. When they re-emerged as an adult, I told the doctors I was having seizures. The ER first claimed I was drunk, when they were called and told that I was coming, insisted that I wasn't having seizures but was taking illegal drugs (even though the 5 tests they did were clean), then when i recovered two days later (common for CP seizures) they said that was proof I was just making up my symptoms. It took months to get an EEG which showed beyond any doubt I was constantly seizing and experiencing multiple seizures a day - which I had been telling the doctors for months.

Good post 106 - the post ictal phase typically occurs 1-3 days after the seizure is over, and in some cases not for 6 months, but thats really rare. Unless my seizures secondary generalize, it takes me several hours before I'm post ictal. I can talk to you just find once they stop. I won't be speaking to you just find tomorrow, as I'll typically be stuck on repeating one phrase over and over again until the post-ictal period is over usually within an hour.

FAIL. Hope you are better now.

Hahaha dork:pp

3 letters... WTF?