gets you, doesn t it, a little bit? if it doesn t get you, something is wrong with you. she lived her life in a catatonic state. now her parents get to meet her for the first time. what a revelation. the child who had 300 seizures a week was now down to just one every seven days. pitter pat, tiptoe. when i first met charlotte, march of 2013 it was one year after that first dose of marijuana. achoo. after almost two years on a feeding tube, she was now eating on her own. yellow. she was talking. even walking. please. she said please. but these stories, they are not without their skeptics. one of the country s two hospitals dedicated to gervais
their toll on their once happy, joyful little girl. she started to really decline, cognitively. and she was slipping away. and she just wasn t keeping up with her twin. they finally found an answer, and it was awful news. gervais syndrome. it is severe intractable epilepsy. the seizures start during the first year of life and are unstoppable, difficult to control, and very damaging. severe behavioral problems. attention deficit and hyperactivity. the self injury, banging her head on the floor and pulling her hair out. like a possessed child. this isn t your happy charlotte. it was a race against time. many gervais kids die young, in early childhood. charlotte was almost 3. for the next two years, the figges tried everything. strange diets, acupuncture, and dozens of powerful drugs like valium, ativan, phenobarbital, but nothing seemed to help. even worse, some of the
little bit? if it doesn t get you, something is wrong with you. she lived her life in a catatonic state. now her parents get to meet her for the first time. what a revelation. the child who had 300 seizures a week was now down to just one every seven days. pitter pat, tiptoe. when i first met charlotte, march of 2013 it was one year after that first dose of marijuana. achoo. after almost two years on a feeding tube, she was now eating on her own. yellow. she was talking. even walking. please. she said please. but these stories, they are not without their skeptics. one of the country s two hospitals dedicated to gervais syndrome in florida states at
though, the seizures had become constant, and started to take their toll on their once happy, joyful little girl. she started to really decline, cognitively. and she was slipping away. and she just wasn t keeping up with her twin. the figges finally found an answer, and it was awful news. gervais syndrome. it is severe intractable epilepsy. the seizures start during the first year of life and are unstoppable, difficult to control, and very damaging. severe behavioral problems. attention deficit and hyperactivity. the self injury, banging her head on the floor and pulling her hair out. like a possessed child. this isn t your happy charlotte. it was a race against time. many gervais kids die young, in early childhood. charlotte was almost 3. for the next two years, the figges tried everything. strange diets, acupuncture, and dozens of powerful drugs like valium, ativan, phenobarbital,
by the time she was 2, though, the seizures had become constant, and started to take their toll on their once happy, joyful little girl. she started to really decline, cognitively. and she was slipping away. and she just wasn t keeping up with her twin. they finally found an answer, and it was awful news. gervais syndrome. it is severe intractable epilepsy. the seizures start during the first year of life and are unstoppable, difficult to control, and very damaging. severe behavioral problems. attention deficit and hyperactivity. the self injury, banging her head on the floor and pulling her hair out. like a possessed child. this isn t your happy charlotte. it was a race against time. many gervais kids die young, in early childhood. charlotte was almost 3. for the next two years, the figges tried everything. strange diets, acupuncture, and