but life has never been easy for kara. i went and did the blood test and my levels were high, and they said, oh, you are pregnant. after years of battling infertility, christie was pregnant with twins. it was 21 weeks gestation, i feel the pain immediately. you were in coherent. he found me with my head on my sink area and i had already vomited and was already unconscious, and i had a stroke. it would be touch and go for 72 hours, doctors monitoring hers and the babies every move, and then five days after the stroke, christie s water broke. when they came out of the they were so small, they were just so tiny. baby a, named keely, was off the ventilator in two weeks and
would be pretty happy about that. often time the headline is my kid is taking a cannabis drug, and some people would say, i can t believe you did that? i would be, i am trying to find something that will help my child because at the end of the day, that s my child and i am thinking for the future, for him. that s what we heard again and again. maribel and carlos these look so nice. marie and jay. there we go. the zartlers and kara. i remember them being desperate and in need of some help and really needing some balance for kara and for their own lives. remember, none of this comes easy. the zartlers story takes a frightening turn, when we come back. there we go.
ajuryious behaviors. is there any idea why that happens as part of the autism spectrum? it may be very similar to a lot of the other repetitive behaviors that they have. autism, asd for autism spectrum disorder, is by definition a wide array of behaviors. but mild, more severe, the two core symptoms are social communication challenges, and one-third are nonverbal and second, repetitive behaviors, like rocking, flapping or even hitting. particularly challenging for the zartlers, hitting people, including themselves, making life unimaginebly challenging for kara and her parents.
zartler were no longer working. the pharmacist said this is the highest dose i ever have seen a 45-pound person on, this is equivalent to a 2,000 pound horse. kara was in school at that time with 3,000 hits a day. you heard that right. she would hit herself 3,000 times in a seven-hour school day, and that s more than seven strikes every minute. the thing about a story like this when i eat something it defines you. one day the neighbor recommended cannabis, and not cbd, which now has become more commonly accepted as a medicine, but thc, the psych yo active part of the plant that gets you high or stoned, he said. he thought that thc might help
marijuana, and rides before cannabis they never even dreamed of taking because this would happen. we re going home. but one day in june of 2009, they had no choice. kara had an important doctor s appointment five hours away in galveston, texas. christie and mark decided to try the marijuana brownies their neighborhood had made. i just gave it to her and she ate it. it was about an hour where she was sitting no longer rocking and no longer hand slapping or hitting, and she s sitting there looking out the window and looking at me and smiling. it was like a miracle. i got to see it up close when i went on a drive with them after kara had a dose of cannabis. we would never be able to do this. this is an easier life for