When I was eight I was playing out with my friend Sayed in his garden. We were playing football and seeing who could score the most goals. I was winning when I started to feel a bit weird.

I couldn’t see properly and Sayed sounded as if he was miles away. Then, the next thing I knew, Sayed’s mum – that’s Yasmin - was leaning over me telling me I would be fine. I didn’t know what was wrong, or how I was suddenly in the kitchen.

Yasmin phoned my mum and soon everything went crazy. I felt fine, just a bit tired, but Mum and Yasmin took me to the hospital. My mum said it was just in case I had concussion.

My mum said that’s when you bang your head hard, pass out and then the hospital just wants to check if you’re OK. I didn’t think I had concussion, but you know what mums are like! When I passed out Yasmin carried me into the house. She must be very strong!

The doctor at the hospital was great. She let me have a go with that thing doctors use – it’s called a stethoscope. I could hear my own heart beating and everything. She asked me loads of questions, then went away and asked Sayed, his mum and my mum loads of questions too. After the doctor looked into my eyes and did a blood test, she said I could go home.

Mum explained to me that the doctor said I had had a seizure when I passed out at Sayed’s house. I didn’t know what a seizure was and my mum didn’t seem to know either. When I went to bed that night it took ages to get to sleep. I was worried that I might have another of these seizures.

I didn’t tell my mum I was worried, but I talked to Sayed about it the next day. I asked him to tell me what happened after I started to feel weird. He said I just stopped running and then went kind of still and fell over. Then my arms and legs jerked a bit and then I was unconscious. He reckoned the doctor would just give me some pills or something and I would be OK. Sayed takes pills and he’s OK.