A martial arts champion has revealed his lifelong fight with epilepsy and how he suffers up to 250 seizures per DAY - half a million in his lifetime. James Bailey, from Essex, began enduring crippling fits soon after he fell and banged his head on a pavement outside his parent s home when he was just two years old. The gold medallist at the European Championships was diagnosed with uncontrollable epilepsy, told he d have to wear a crash helmet every day and that he d lose the use of the right side of his body.
James working as a gardener But the 27-year-old refused to be defined by his condition and, after leaving school, took up martial arts and boxing - despite being told another blow to the head could be disastrous.
Brave James Bailey, 27, began enduring crippling fits soon after he fell and banged his head on a pavement outside his parent s home in Essex when he was just two years old.
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