As he was growing up, Paul Shaffer sometimes froze in his tracks and felt like he was walking away from his body.
He did not tell anyone about the sensation, which usually passed quickly: “Who would believe me?”
It was not until he was in his 20s and convulsions knocked him out of his chair at work that a doctor told him he had epilepsy and he was having seizures. Still Shaffer, now 54, did not do anything about it until years later when he crashed his car and his wife insisted on a proper assessment and treatment.
