The medic asks how I knew if I had a seizure in bed if no onewitnessed it.“I just know,” I say.He looks hardened and skeptical.He doesn’t believe me.My boss starts getting more abrasive. I call in to say I had a seizure. Another one.“You have to find someone to cover you otherwise you need tocome in,” the text reads.I don’t know yet that it’s borderline illegal—that is to say, completely abusive and completely legal—to insist. I don’t do more thanlet the little voice in my head whisper until I’m fired. They say it’sdress code, but I know better now.I’m not convenient.I am on the phone with the lawyer’s office. Once again, the seizure pulls speech from me that I have no memory of: crying, panic,shouts of don’t-leave-me-alone-please-please-please.An ambulance gets called to the right address, somehow. I can feeltheir pity once I hear my story from someone else.7
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