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Ryan Simpson still remembers the night that changed his life two years ago when he was home alone watching TV.

"I kind of felt that something wasn't quite right,” Simpson, 24, an IT employee at a Lexington, Ky., hospital, tells PEOPLE. “The next thing I know, I woke up on the floor, very confused."

He adds, "I didn't even know what happened, but I figured waking up on the floor is not a normal thing, so I should probably go get checked out.”

Simpson called his family to drive him to the hospital as a precaution.

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