My First Seizures-Personal Narrative

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My aunt, my little cousin, and my brother and I were all packed in the truck headed to my grandparents house. We pulled into the entrance and my little cousin had been acting like a goof ball, he got out to get the gate and he starts waving his hands at us, we all thought it was part of him playing around till he dropped to the ground and began convulsing, at that moment we all scrambled out of the truck to him. We had no idea what was going on with him so we immediately called 911 and they sent evac to the house and they took him to San Antonio.
My cousin Gage had a grand mal seizure, it was the first seizure he had ever had and it was very unexpected. After a couple of days they had let him go home, the next year had taken a heavy toll on

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