(AP) — There's a hole in Dakota Sailor's memory — a gap from the evening of Thursday, Feb. 4, until late afternoon on Saturday, Feb. 6.

The Carl Junction teen remembers going to school that Thursday,drinking two high-powered energy beverages, and later falling asleep on the couch in the living room.

He next remembers waking up in St. John's Regional Medical Center on Saturday when physicians removed him from a ventilator.

The 17-year-old junior — a defensive end and tackle for the Carl Junction High School football team — had no history of seizures, and a series of medical tests found no apparent cause for this one.

His mother, Monique Burrows, found him that Friday morning after hearing what she described as a strange "gurgling" noise. She said that she found her son on the couch, where he had aspirated and turned blue.  She yelled for her husband, who performed CPR on Sailor until an ambulance arrived.

He spent five days in the hospital, Burrows said.

Doctors concluded that her son's seizure was likely triggered by the energy drinks he had consumed that evening.

"It was upsetting, and it's life-changing," Sailor said. "I never thought a drink could do something like that to somebody."

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