Personal Narrative: My First Law

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“Call 911!” I heard my aunt yell. Those days, July 31 through August 2, 2014, were interesting days. My laws of life were shown. They are faith, and patience. That day was the day I started having seizures. My first law is faith. My faith was shown a lot because I had to believe God was taking care of me and knew what was going on. He knew everything was going to be ok, and I trusted him. You knew I was going to be OK while I went through EEG's, EEK's, and MRIs. Well I was getting blood drawn and medicine to keep me from having more seizures that night he knew everything was going to be ok.

My next lot is patients. My patients was pushed these July 31 I had a seizure around 12:30 AM in the car on the way back from a drive-in movie theater.

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