Hi,

I am John's wife and i would like to add some more detail to what has
happened in recent days.  On Saturday just gone, John suffered from a
Major Grand Mal Seizure on Saturday in which i had to resusertate him.
He was sent to the hospital because is pulseox was very low as well as
his blood pressure and his heart was running into the high 100's.  This
was the first major grand mal that he has had and apart from scaring me
to death (i am 23 weeks pregnant) he seems to be fine now.  We saw the
doctor today and was advised that because John has an underlining chest
infection that this could have caused this seizure to happen as well as
the one that he had 10 days ago.  I have also contacted his neurologist
to advise her of the situation in the hope that he will be seen a bit
sooner than they were planning but we are waiting to hear on that
front.  I am petrified of leaving him alone because if i had not been
there he would have died that day.

Has anyone had this type of seizure which is known to have been caused
by an underlining infection.  I would like some feed back as i would
like my own mind to be put at rest that this sort of thing can happen
so that i can look out for him not being well and getting it sorted out
quickly in order that we do not go through this type of thing again.

Any help or advice would be grateful accepted.

Thanks for listerning.

Maria Crocker