Good day all,

It is me again :-)

My boss has some troubles. He falls down once per two years. According to
him, there is no logical explanation for this and he never told his
employees that this sometimes happens to him untill it happened at work. The
event takes no more then 60 seconds and they only happened once per two
years. These events however seems to be come more severe and appear more
often now. Once which is actually a couple of months ago, just before I came
into the office, I learned that two colleagues were trying to hold him still
as he was kicking with this foot -actually they were on top of him to make
him stop shaking which is not good.

So, I told him to see a doctor to find out if this is caused by epilepsy. He
however did not like the word "epilepsy" because he only knew the well known
seizure and this was something different and he had done a EEG test six
years ago and nothing was found at that time. I shut my mouth because he is
still my boss and it is still his life as you can imagine.

Last Monday, he was asking some specific questions how he could get in
contact with a neurologist and I explained it to him (GP / referal, etc.).
This was because two days ago, he had another event in front of all his
family at a reception. Now today, he described to me the whole event and he
described to me his personal feelings, his complete panic attacks, his
worries, his fear, etc. I advised him as best as I could though I was a
little bit uncomfortable as he is still my boss and I know he does not like
to talk about his events (but this appears to be changed now). I redirected
him to http://www.epilepsy.com and then he explained to me what really
happend while his events starts. His last events happend with all his family
around so I think they might push him a little bit harder then I could do so
far to see a neurologist:

    1. he feels something strange in his head
    2. he knows how to deal with it as he knows what might happen, so he sits
    down for a while (he calls this a panic attack)
    3. he passes out
    4. he start stiffening his legs
    5. he wakes up, exhausted, panicked, fear, and the room is twisting a bit

I told him that this looks like an aura, a simple partial, a well defined
pre-ictal state, ictal state, post-ictal state, etc.

Though this is a strange experience for him right now as he only knows about
the seizure type that is well known to the general public (primary
generalized), it is a strange experience for me as well as I am telling my
boss what to do next! Of course, thanks to this newsgroup that share all
kinds of experiences which do not come directly out of a text book, I am
able to tell my boss that what he experiences looks like epilepsy and that
it is possible that events only happen once or twice a year, etc.

As I always say: with knowledge comes power. Hopefully, my boss will now
really start fighting the events / seizures as well and hopefully he will
survive. I know that it must be very frustrating for him right now. I did
not tell him about the drivers license as I know he used to drive a Porsche
to his work and believe me, he lives a long way from the office; he is not
really that type of guy that takes the public transport.