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Jeffress makes strides while taking on epilepsy

"I never went to the doctor about that incident. I just went home and said nothing about it. Took a nap. That's one thing I shouldn't have done. I hit my head pretty hard on the concrete. That was it."

That was the beginning. Sitting calmly on the bench in the visitor's dugout at Tropicana Field, Jeffress talks about the tribulations he has gone through for the past 12 years with epilepsy in the hopes that his story may help others.

Jeffress induces a groundout
Jeremy Jeffress induces a soft grounder to third that Adrian Beltre handles for an inning-ending out in Jeffress' debut with the Rangers

"It's tough," Jeffress said.