Jason Sol (45) from Bladel suffered an epileptic attack last Sunday during PSV-Ajax. The match was stopped and the crowd fell silent. Fortunately, he is back on his feet a day later. “I really want to thank the Ajax doctor.”
Jason’s attack was a very nasty moment in the Philips Stadium. After about half an hour of play, the match was stopped for five minutes because someone in the stands had to be resuscitated.
Doctors from PSV and Ajax ran to the stands to help. Finally, Jason was carried to an ambulance to loud applause from the audience.
“I missed a very exciting match.”
A day later, Jason finds it difficult to realize what happened. He doesn’t know everything anymore. “When I had the epileptic attack the score was 1-1. That’s a shame, I missed a very exciting match,” he laughs.
Jason has epilepsy and has had such attacks before. “But normally I am not resuscitated. That has now happened.” Jason doesn’t know yet exactly how that works. “Medicians couldn’t tell me anything about that yet.”
The good news is that he says he is ‘completely back on his feet’. He was released from the hospital on Monday afternoon. Things are going well, partly thanks to the quick response of the doctors, including Ajax’s club doctor.
“It is very nice and special that doctors from such an opponent immediately help me.”
“I don’t know through which channels I should go to thank the doctors of both clubs. I don’t have social media to do that myself, but it is very nice and special. I am sure that doctors from such an opponent will help me immediately. So thank you very much.”
Furthermore, according to Jason, it may have looked exciting, but he found the fuss during and after the match a bit intense.
“You are taken out of the stands and the match is stopped. I’m surprised about that afterwards. We have 38,000 people in such a stadium, so something can always happen. I don’t know what I think about it being done with so much attention.”
“Hopefully doctors can do more research into this.”
Anyway, he’s mostly grateful. And he hopes not to experience it again, especially not in a stadium. “But I never know how my epilepsy will develop. That’s the bad thing about epilepsy. Hopefully doctors can do more research into this.”
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