Miracle Seizure Saves Man's Life

0:00On April 27, last December, a 59-year-old guy named Mark Toothaker from Lexington, Kentucky was chilling at home watching Monday night. Football. He works at spin-through farm managing stallions and it just hit the gym. While watching the New York Giants face the New England Patriots from bed with his wife, the Giants kicker shanked to field goal. Mark rewound the replay, cracked up laughing, and boom, that laugh triggered a massive seizure. His wife Malori, who's a nurse specializing in brain injuries, thought he was messing around at first, but quickly called 911. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, where a scan showed a tennis ball-sized tumor pressing on his brain. They transferred him to the University of Kentucky Hospital, and surgeons removed the whole thing. It turned out benign. Mark had zero symptoms before this, even though the tumor had shifted his brain 6 mm. As stallion sees a manager, he drives and flies everywhere for work, including races around the country. He figures that seizure hit at the perfect time safe in bed, not behind the wheel of his

1:03expedition, or on a plane where it could have been deadly for, him or others. Now fully recovered with no lasting effects, Mark's back to normal life. He's tight with the dad of a Giants receiver, and he's even thinking of inviting that kicker to the Kentucky Derby this Saturday. Mark have spent their farm's courses for their auto, is running there after winning a big preparation. Mark calls it a miracle, that missed kick straight up saved his life by catching the tumor early. Malori says they're beyond blessed. It happened at home, the absolute best-case setup when so many folks aren't so lucky. That's your update from Global News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.