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her brain continuously locked in seizure and nothing had worked. the wilsons were pinning their hopes on medical marijuana. they read about marijuana on the internet and saw stories about it saving lives. like little charlotte, whose story was told in our first documentary weed. i remember i was at the gym on the treadmill and i saw a preview. i was watching the tv. i was just so excited because i knew everything was going to change at that moment. they hoped marijuana would rescue vivian from the virtual prison she lives in. where bright lights, loud sounds and patterns can all induce a seizure. that s why she wears that patch on her eye. if she could be blindfolded she d be seizure free. it s everything. all visual stimuli. she can t leave the house. vivian, do you know this book? vivian and i first played together in her darkened, quiet, very controlled bedroom. it became clear how tremendous a toll this isolation takes on
yesterday, the first part of it, she suffers with epilepsy and david and susan have been on a long and often frightening journey to deal with the debilitating seizures and the outcome is a happy one, she s seizure free, learned to live more on her own and lives at a special place, that caters to people who have been dealt shall we say a tougher set of cards than the rest of us have. called misericordia, outside of chicago and we ll take you there, to see how the axelrods and many others have found a safe harbor. god made me. reporter: she s one of the daughter of the most powerful men in washington. her dad, david, is a senior advisor to president obama. since lauren has an infant she suffered an onslaught of epileptic seizures, literally assaults to the brain and