$80,000 medication is family's only hope to keep baby healthy
A Tennessee family waits to hear whether or not the pricey viles of medication to treat their infant's seizures will be covered by insurance.
Author: Jon Diaz
Updated: 1:35 PM CST December 21, 2020
KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Not too long ago, baby Aria appeared healthy: laughing and smiling.
Then her parents, Carson Peterson and Alex Gibson, of Knoxville, noticed something unusual.
"She was having these random eye movements where her eyes would roll downwards and shake up and down, and it progressed pretty quickly to where her arms and legs would raise up and stiffen," said Gibson.