“Daddy, you were shaking… your whole body was shaking, and your eyes were open, but you wouldn’t wake up. I was yelling… but you didn’t hear me.”

I froze. His words cut through me like an icy wind. Little by little, I started to understand: this wasn’t a dream. It was a seizure.

It happens rarely, but it has happened before. And the scariest thing is — it always comes suddenly. Usually my wife is next to me, but this time I was saved by… my one-year-old child.