Milton Feeling Good and Back to Going About Normal Life After Seizure Thursday, 16th Jan 2025 11:38 Former Blues midfielder Simon Milton says he’s feeling good and is back to going about his normal life following his seizure during the AFC Bournemouth game at the start of December. Milton was taken ill in the second half of the game against the Cherries and was attended to by medics in the directors’ box before being taken to Ipswich Hospital. Having been given tests and scans, the 61-year-old, who these days runs the Ghana and Togo-based Futurestars charity as well as having a role at Portman Road on matchdays and at other events, was allowed home that evening. “I’m good,” he said, speaking to Life’s a Pitch TV. “I’ve been pretty good from a couple of days from the seizure, it’s officially called a seizure. “It happened on 8th December in the Bournemouth game. A big shock, but since then I’ve had every test under the sun, every scan and everything has come out negative and positive, so moving forwards, a clean bill of health. “The major issue at the moment is that I can’t drive for six months because of the seizure, but that’s an issue that I can handle. “Flying’s no problem, I’m back to Ghana at the start of next month, so just going about my normal life after a very, very, very quiet December.” Milton admits it was a bit of a warning to take better care of himself: “Definitely. I’m a breakfast skipper, I’m a meal skipper. I get up in the morning, get going and that’s it, and then I get to a point and think I haven’t even eaten. “And that’s exactly what happened on the day. A two o’clock kick-off, I got dropped off about 10.15, had a coffee at home, had a coffee at the club, did all of the things that we do pre-match and that three hours before kick-off is very, very busy for us going round all the corporate areas and doing all that. “I took my seat and had probably had two coffees and a quarter of a sandwich all day and it was definitely the main reason. And then I got over excited when Chappers [Conor Chaplin] scored. “This is the story and I’ll tell you up to the point that I can remember. When Chappers scored, although we’re in the directors’ box, we still get excited. The row stood up and these two guys [Terry Butcher and Russell Osman], we stand up and celebrate the goal. “At that moment, as I stood up, I just felt this massive rush of blood to the head, I felt like my ears had popped. I felt like I was on the outside looking in. It was the strangest thing I’d ever had. “If I wasn’t in a row, I’d got Frank Yallop, Carlos Edwards, James Scowcroft, all guests, all in the same row, if I wasn’t in that row, I could have easily lost my balance and fallen over. “But I sat back down. It got to half-time, I was trying to work out how I felt and at half-time, instead of going to any of the lounges or the boardroom, I went straight to the office on my own and tried to work out how I felt. “I still didn’t drink anything, still didn’t eat anything and like most men I gave myself a clean bill of health and I went back out for the second half. “And then it was in the second half where the guys around me were talking to me and I wasn’t really responding and I had the seizure, the fit. “I then woke up a couple of hours later in hospital, Natasha [partner], Halle my daughter [were there] and was completely perplexed about what had happened. “It took me a few days to speak to everyone who was near me, work out what they saw. What James Scowcroft said was that it was just the most harrowing experience because you’ve got one of your mates who is physically shaking and not responding and also made him feel utterly useless because they’re all pulling away. “Fortunately for me, there was a GP in the directors’ box, I had my first responders and I joke about it, but Russell and Mark Calver [Town sponsor and Life’s a Pitch TV sponsorship manager] were very much holding me up from behind and then everybody sort of moved out of the way. “The official first responders were very close, so they were there very quickly and then I got carried out of the directors’ box.” He added: “Definitely a shot across the bows and a warning. Now I get up every morning, I feed the dog and I feed myself, and then I have lunch.” Milton has previously thanked the first responders, as well as the fans and friends who sent messages of goodwill, and he plans to bring the work they do on a matchday more into the public eye. “We’re going to highlight how good these responders are,” he continued. “The stewards and all the safety team, the job that they do, because they’re there all the time, any issues that the crowd has “And there’s always something going on all the time. I certainly didn’t expect it to be me behind the blankets being carried out.”
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