There to support James

Friends gathered at the Tracy Eagles Club on Saturday to support James Johnson, who earlier this year was diagnosed with low-grade glioma (a tumor in his brain). Photo / Per Peterson

James Johnson doesn’t remember anything about the morning of May 30, but he has been told it was a rough one.

It was then, a day after working in Dell Rapids, SD, that the 48-year-old Johnson suffered a seizure. He literally fell flat on his face, bloodying his nose and badly bruising his forehead. As it turns out, it was a life-changing morning for James and his wife, Dani.

“(Dani) heard a loud bang and came up to find me laying in a pool of blood at the foot of our bed,” James said. “She couldn’t get me to wake up. She tired to get me to roll over, I made some noises. She said my forehead had swollen up like something in a movie.”

That was the first of three days that James was “out of it.” The three lost days of his life, included the time he passed out, plus when he was medically induced.