A 42-year-old Navy veteran and Port of San Diego Harbor Police officer is recovering after a seizure led doctors to discover a dangerous brain condition, called arterial arteriovenous malformation or AVM, that required multiple surgeries.
Officer Mitchell Collier suffered the seizure on Sept. 16 while at a mall arcade with his two young sons after school. His wife, Sheena Collier, who is a nurse, said she was at the end of her shift when she received a phone call from him that immediately raised concern.
“It was Mitchell and he sounded like, you know, I felt like something was happening,” Sheena Collier said. “He said, ‘Hey, I’m with the kids,’ and I thought, ‘OK?’ and that’s when another voice was in the background, and it was the fire captain. And he said, ‘I’m with your husband right now. He’s here at the mall. He had a seizure. He’s here with your children. Are you able to come here and be here?’”…