From Hidden Brain Media, I'm Shankar Vedantam. This is my unsung hero.

Stories where one person reached out to help another in a time of need.

Thank you so much for the chance to tell you about my unsung hero.

I just left there feeling like there was hope for my situation and my kids.

I can never thank you enough for all you've done for me,

and I'll never be able to repay you.

Thank you.

Today's story comes from Nicole George O'Brien.

When Nicole was 16, she began having seizures.

Her doctors tried out a number of medications, but her seizures wouldn't stop. So when she was 21, she had

brain surgery and her life went back to normal. I hadn't had any seizures for five years when one day while I was driving over the San Mateo

Bridge to get to my job, I had a seizure.

And when I woke up in the hospital

and realized what had happened. I was horrified and really worried that I had

heard someone and that was one of the first things I was asking the nurses and the doctor that were there,

did I hurt someone, did I kill anybody? You know, there were several lanes of cars all going quickly. It's the busy morning commute time

And they told me about how a man had seen me having a seizure in my car and pulled over and helped people go around me,

directed traffic around me, and somehow no one was hurt.

I didn't hit anyone, they didn't hit me, which is kind of a miracle. No one I talked to had any information about who he was.

I believe he had just driven off after that after the ambulance came.

So I don't know anything about him.

But he clearly changed my life and probably the lives of several people on the freeway that morning.

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