Seizure
Jon sat in his doctors office while the man checked his blood pressure.
"Blood pressure is a little higher then usual. It should settle down once your body adapts to the new medication" the man explained while Jon nodded.
"Feeling unwell at all?" Dr Andrews asked as he took Jon's temperature.
"Nope" Jon told him.
About a week before, Dr Andrews had called Jon in for a check-up and had decided to put him on a new mood stabilizer since the one he was on wasn't having much of an affect anymore and he was becoming increasingly more short tempered and irritable.
"Well, I'm satisfied. If you start feeling unwell at all just call me or have one of your friends call me and I'll book you in straight away" he told Jon as he walked him to the door.
"Ok" Jon said simply as he walked into the waiting room where his friends sat.
They both saw him leave the doctors office and look over at them so they stood and followed him as they made their way to their parked car.
"What did he say?" Joe asked as they got into the vehicle.
"Just that all my sats were fine. My blood pressure was a little high but he said it could be me getting used to the new meds. Told me that I start to feel sick or anything to call him or to get one of you to call him and he'll book me in for an appointment" he told them.
"Ok, cool" Joe said as they made their way home.
When they got back to their apartment they began packing their bags ready to go back on the road.
They had a house show for RAW the next day and with Jon's doctors appointment it had given them limited time to get ready.
"Sorry" he mumbled as they rushed to pack their bags.
"What are you sorry for? You had to get your meds changed and the doc wanted to do a check up. Nothing to apologise for man" Joe told him reassuringly.
When they had their stuff packed up, they made sure they had their passports and made their way to their car to begin the journey to the airport.
It was the third day of their tour and Jon wasn't feeling his usual self.
He felt twitchy and irritated. He kept getting hot flushes and a loss of appetite and he would randomly get dizzy spells.
He hadn't mentioned it to Joe or Colby because he knew they would start freaking out and mother henning him to death.
If it got worse he would tell them and book an appointment with his doctor but for now he thought, he could manage it.
After having a mixed tag match against The New Day, the boys made their way to their locker room.
Jon untaped his hands and couldn't help but notice that he couldn't stop them from shaking.
He looked at them and tried as hard as he could to still them but he couldn't.
Colby saw his friend looking at his hands out of the corner of his eye. Upon further inspection, he noticed the shaking too.
He nudged Joe to get his attention and he looked toward his friend as well.
"You ok Jon?" Joe asked concerned.
"Huh? Oh yeah. I think the meds is starting to kick in. My hands wont stop shaking" he explained.
Joe and Colby glanced at each other worriedly.
Colby gave Joe a subtle nod and Joe excused himself from the room.
He made his way to Paul's office and knocked on the door.
"Come in" he heard from inside.
He walked in and found his boss sat at his desk typing away on his laptop.
"Hey Joe, everything ok?" Paul asked when he saw the concerned look on the younger man's face.
"It's Jon" Joe told him.
"What's wrong?" Paul asked as he stood up from his place at the desk.
Joe raised a hand to still him.
"He was given some new meds and I think he might have to go and see his doc. He's getting tremors and his doctor said to go back straight away if something like this started happening" he explained.
Paul nodded. "Ok. You and Colby going with him?" he asked already knowing the answer.
"If that's ok. We don't wanna leave him on his own right now" he told his boss.
"That's understandable. Ok, take two days off but I want you all back ready for Monday Night RAW" he told Joe.
After thanking Paul, Joe made his way back to the locker room he and his friends shared.
As he made his way down the hall, he bumped into Randy.
"Sorry man" Joe said as he went to walk on.
"Thank God, Colby asked me to come find you...it's Jon" Randy said hurriedly.
Joe took of running down the hall way and burst through the door to the locker room.
Colby was knelt on the floor next to Jon sobbing.
Upon further inspection, Joe saw that Jon was having a seizure.
"Go and get help" he said to Randy behind him.
Randy took off running down the hall to the trainers office to get the doc to come and help.
Joe knelt on the floor next to his convulsing friend.
Jon's eyes were staring up at the ceiling, his head tilted back and his face red as his shoulders twitched uncontrollably.
"Jon" he said as he lay a hand on his friends shoulder.
"What happened?" he asked Colby who had tears streaming down his face.
"I don't know. He said he had a headache and he stood up to change and the next thing he's on the floor" Colby said, his sobs mixed in with Jon's panting and grunting.
"FUCK" Joe shouted when he saw blood slowly start to drip down Jon's cheek from his mouth.
He grabbed hold of Jon's face and tried to get him to focus on him.
"Jon...Jon...can you hear me?" he asked panicked by the lack of response his friend was giving.
"Jon" he tried again but to no avail.
The door to their locker room opened quickly and the trainer rushed inside.
"Let go of him" he said to Joe.
"What?" Joe asked confused.
"I need you to let go of him. You can't hold down someone who is seizing. You're holding his head. One sharp twist from him and it can break his neck" the doc said making Joe release the hold of his friend immediately.
The took out his stethoscope and listened to Jon's breathing and heart beat.
"Has he taken any drugs in the last twelve hours?" he asked.
"No" both men replied.
"Has he got any allergies" he asked them.
"No" they both replied again.
"Is he on any medication other then what we know about" he asked them.
"No...Yeah. He was given a new mood stabilizer to try. He's been taking it for about a week" Joe told him.
"Has he been acting off before this?" he asked as he watched Jon's shoulders twitch.
"His hands were shaking but that's it" Colby said.
The trainer nodded.
"Aren't you gonna help him?" Joe asked panicked at the trainers lack of help.
"When the seizure's stopped I will. Not much I can do right now. Helping him at the moment could actually make it worse" he explained.
As they knelt on the floor waiting for the seizure to stop, the door opened and Paul and Stephanie burst into the room.
"What the hell is going on?" Paul demanded.
"I think he's having a negative reaction to the new medication he's been put on" the doc said.
"No shit" Paul replied.
"What are you waiting for? Help him" he demanded.
"Can't. Not until the seizure stops. He's been fitting for nearly four minutes now. Any time after five minutes and its ambulance time" he explained.
"Why's he bleeding?" Stephanie asked, hands over her mouth in shock.
"He's bit down on his tongue" the doc told her.
"Oh god" Colby sobbed.
After a few more moments, the twitches became less aggressive and Jon began to blink slightly.
"Jon...Jon?" the trainer called as he rubbed his knuckles along Jon's chest.
"Jon...can you here me?" he called again.
He was getting no response.
"Hey Jon...it's Joe. Can you here me dude?" he asked.
Joe leant over and took a hold of his friends hand.
"If you can here me, squeeze my hand. Squeeze my hand Jon" he said trying to get through to his friend.
After what felt like hours but was actually a few seconds, Jon's hand tightened around his own.
He and Colby began to hysterically smile.
"Good...well done man" Colby said patting his friends arm.
"Alright, lets just give you some oxygen" the doc said as he placed an oxygen mask on Jon's face.
He then listened to his breathing and heart rate again and nodded.
"Good. Breathing is getting stronger and his heart rate is slowing" he said aloud.
"Is he going to be ok?" Paul asked concerned.
"He should be. He needs to stop taking the new medication he was given. I want him to go to the hospital just to be on the safe side. You boy's gonna go with him?" the doc asked Joe and Colby who nodded.
Stephanie sighed in relief when she heard Jon was going to be ok. She watched as his eyes slowly closed.
"Is he allowed to sleep?" she asked the doc.
He nodded.
"We actually encourage it. Your body needs to rest after a seizure" he told them.
He briefly took off the oxygen mask and looked in Jon's mouth.
"Good, he hasn't bitten through his tongue so he wont need stitches" he said.
He reapplied the oxygen mask and then turned Jon onto his left side.
Joe frowned.
"It's the recovery position" the doc told him when he noticed his look of concern.
"Helps with breathing" he told him.
"What do we do now?" Paul asked as he knelt down and gave Jon's arm a subtle rub.
"Wait until he wakes up. He shouldn't be out for too long" he replied.
He radioed through to get an ambulance on stand by to which he was told one was already waiting.
While Paul spoke to the doc about Jon's health, the man himself began to stir.
"Jon" Colby called as he leant in closer to his friend.
"Hmm..." Jon moaned out.
"Are you ok?" Colby asked.
Jon's eyes began to open and he looked at Colby confused.
He then became more aware and tried to sit up.
"Jon...Jon, calm down" the doctor said as he tried to still him.
"It's doc Amann" he began.
"You scared us all for a moment there buddy" he said.
"The new meds your doctor gave you, made you have a seizure. You were out of it for about four minutes but you're ok now. Were gonna have you go to hospital to get checked out just to be safe and then you're gonna go home and rest for a few days ok?" he explained.
A tear escaped Jon's eye after doc Amann had finished explaining what had happened.
He then looked up to Colby and Joe who knelt next to him worriedly.
"Hey man" Joe said with a smile.
"You scared us dude" he said sadly.
Jon managed to get out a small "sorry". His throat hurt like hell.
He raised a hand to it and swallowed hard.
"Is your throat hurting?" doc Amann asked him to which he nodded.
"It's common. Gonna have a sore throat for a few days I'm afraid" he told him.
When he'd stabilised enough, Jon was put on a stretcher and wheeled towards a waiting ambulance.
A few of the guys who had heard what had happened stood by the ambulance to wish him well as they loaded him in.
"Stay with him and get him straight to his doc when you get home" Paul told Colby and Joe.
"And you..." he said standing next to Jon "look after yourself, ok" he said as he patted the man's leg reassuringly.
"Thanks for your help Randy" Colby said and Randy nodded.
"No problem. Feel better soon man" he said to Jon who gave a brief nod.
After a long wait at the hospital, Jon was seen and after some tests were run, he was discharged.
He slept in the back of the taxi the boys took from the hospital back to the hotel.
Jon was told to rest and to stop taking the new meds he was given affective immediately.
Both Joe and Colby helped him up to their shared hotel room and helped him get ready for bed.
He was confused and tired and could barley function.
Colby and Joe didn't sleep that night.
Instead they sat up and watched their friend sleep to make sure he was ok.