The 'Duck Dynasty' star, who was out from hospital on Monday, October 27, gives details about the frightening seizure he suffered while deer hunting earlier this month.
- Oct 30, 2014
AceShowbiz - Jep Robertson opened up about his health scare in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, October 29. The "Duck Dynasty" star said, "I thought I was a goner." Jep told the site that he was deer hunting in a remote part of his native Louisiana on Sunday, October 19 when he suddenly collapsed.
"I reached to get my bow and that's kind of the last I remember," the youngest son of Phil Robertson recalled, "I crumbled to the ground and they said that I had a seizure for five minutes." He told the site that his brother Willie Robertson was nearby and ran to his aide. "It took them about an hour and a half to two hours before the ambulance got there," Jep's wife Jessica Robertson added.
According to the site, Jep was then sedated in ICU and remained on ventilator for 4 days. He had to be tied down to his bed and didn't even recognize his own mother. "The time I remember is Thursday - waking up Thursday, looking around, asking Jess, 'What are we doing in the hospital?' " he shared, "I had no idea what had happened four days before."
Doctors still cannot find the cause of Jep's seizure although they performed a spinal tap, an EEG and CT scan. "They think it was mix between meningitis and encephalitis," said Jep who was released from hospital on Monday. "For the last month, I've mispronounced words and I didn't know why I did it, but I think it was leading up to the seizure."
Jep joked that he couldn't wait to go hunting again, saying, "At least a month... and I'm mad about it, I'm real mad about it."
