The Moment Everything Changed
“Having everything stripped away from me, that was hard,
I felt like I wasn’t in control.”
Tommy Freeman was just a schoolboy when he first experienced an absence seizure while reading out loud in class.
From that moment, life started to shift.
What began as confusion soon turned into hospital visits, tests, and finally — a diagnosis of epilepsy.
He added: “It was kind of like, no… it can’t be. No one wants to hear that word.”
Epilepsy took away his independence and left him facing a terrifying unknown. For a young person with big dreams, the future suddenly felt out of reach.
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