A dad needed brain surgery after 25 years of epileptic seizures that drugs struggled to control.
Rob Anderson, 47, was in his second year of university when a viral brain infection sparked his first seizure. He kept kept going into 'absences' mid-conversation, losing awareness of his surroundings and staring blankly into space for short periods of time.
He said the seizures left him lots of explaining to do to people who imagine epilepsy as "someone falling to the floor, thrashing around". The engineering consultant from Warrington said: "It makes you feel quite insecure. In terms of your self-confidence and your self-perception, that's where it's hard."
