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🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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If Annie had just been open with her friend, their falling out might have been prevented. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:11.6	Annie, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call. Thank you. How can I help?
0:20.2	So I actually have, I just had this kind of developed today where I have a friend that we actually live about two blocks from one another.
0:33.4	And in the last five years, we had grown very close where our families had vacation together.
0:42.3	We would spend some holidays together.
0:45.3	And in the last 10 months, this happened last October, I actually had a health situation where I was having a conversation
0:59.1	with somebody and I had, I think, and I had a seizure during the conversation. And that
1:07.8	ended up affecting me for a few months, just cognitively.
1:14.5	Like I would feel a lot of...
1:15.6	Okay, you're sitting with somebody having a conversation.
1:18.5	You have a seizure.
1:19.2	They don't call 911?
1:22.5	No, the person that was helping me that day, she happened to have a daughter that was in, I'm sorry.
1:35.7	She happened to have a daughter that has seizures.
1:40.1	What the hell difference does that make?
1:42.1	If you're an adult, you're having a seizure.
1:44.7	Why didn't he call 911?
1:45.8	I'm a little horrified.
1:48.3	Well, I didn't want to go through 911, but I did go to the doctor.
1:54.0	I have been getting tests done.
1:56.7	I'm actually in process to get an MRI soon.
2:09.0	And so I am taking care of the situation, but at the day, that moment, they didn't call 911 at my request.
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