{"id":418944,"date":"2025-09-12T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418944\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:05:24","slug":"fnd-sheffield-dj-who-had-eight-seizures-a-day-returns-to-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418944\/","title":{"rendered":"FND: Sheffield DJ who had &#8216;eight seizures a day&#8217; returns to stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Stocks says she was diagnosed after her second seizure, which meant losing her driving licence and having to quit her job as a social worker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not scary when they&#8217;re happening, it&#8217;s scary going out and not knowing when they&#8217;re going to happen,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of the time, people will ring an ambulance and think you&#8217;re dying, but that&#8217;s not the case &#8211; I feel a bit embarrassed when I come around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is still unsure exactly what triggers the seizures, but says keeping &#8220;fit, healthy, and happy&#8221; has helped to reduce their frequency, and she now has &#8220;a few a month rather than a few a day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She says the warning signs of a seizure are feeling nauseous and her eyes flickering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Stocks and her fiance have a three-month-old son, but she says that being aware of the symptoms means she can still care for him safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Stocks says she was diagnosed after her second seizure, which meant losing her driving licence and having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-418944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115192419170032403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}