Triple M’s Mark Geyer breaks down talking about his daughter’s epilepsy scare

IN AN emotional segment on radio today, rugby league hard man Mark Geyer revealed his family was rocked by a shock medical emergency on the weekend.

IN AN emotional segment on radio this morning, former rugby league hard man Mark Geyer revealed that he was “rocked” on the weekend when his eldest daughter had an epileptic fit.

Speaking on Triple M’s Grill Team, the father of five broke down when telling his co-hosts Matty Johns and Gus Worland, “I thought I was going to lose her”.

So far two of Geyer’s daughters have been diagnosed with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy with his eldest, 18-year-old, Montanna suffering an attack just two days ago.

Mark Geyer with his family.

“On Sunday Montanna had a few friends over,” Geyer said through tears.

“Luckily her friend was in the room with her when it happened. They got to sleep late, probably three or four as girls do.

“She put her alarm on for seven o’clock in the morning because for her 18th birthday she got a skydive so they were going to go skydiving on Sunday.

“But Montanna … got woken up by her friend Erin and she went into a jerk which led to a seizure.

Triple M’s Grill team: Mark Geyer, Matty Johns and Gus Worland.

“When you see your daughter frothing at the mouth with foam coming out and you can’t do anything about it, it’s hard, it’s really hard.”

Geyer hopes the recent scare will be a wakeup call for his daughters who, despite being diagnosed with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy, don’t always take their medication.

“Medication is a paramount and when you try and tell a 15 and an 18 year old girl that they have to have two tablets a day, morning and night, for the rest of their lives, they say, ‘No, we can’t’,” Geyer said.

Mark Geyer said he spoke about the incident on radio because he wants to help raise awareness and get the message out there that there is help available if you suffer from epilepsy.

If you require any information or help regarding epilepsy, please head to Epilepsy.org.au or call 1300 37 45 37