Apple Watch Helped Inform a Husband About His Wife’s Epileptic Attacks
Kate Donald is a 40-year-old mother of three from Sydney Australia. Kate has suffered from epilepsy for years. Thankfully, her family has done their part to protect and care for her, each one trained in what to do if Kat were to have an epileptic attack, including the oldest child, at the age of 3. However, Kate was prone to falls. So Ben Donald, Kate’s husband, purchased her an Apple Watch Series 4 with the explicit goal of tracking her body functions, most notably if and when she might have fallen. During a trip away from home, Kate had an epileptic attack, collapsing there. Her Apple Watch automatically contacted Ben and emergency services, who immediately drove to her home to help her. If she had not had the Fall Detection function on her person, it’s likely that the attack would have escalated and caused severe harm to her body as a whole.