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Charlotte Figi was still a baby when she experienced her first grand mal seizure. By the time Charlotte turned two, she was taking seven different medications to combat the frequency and severity of her convulsions. In an attempt to curb her epilepsy, she was prescribed heavy and addictive barbiturates which had harsh side effects for adult patients, let alone a toddler.
To her parents' dismay, the medications only offered a temporary solution. The seizures always returned with a vengeance, no matter how many pills Charlotte took. It would transpire that Charlotte had developed Dravet Syndrome, a debilitating form of epilepsy.
At age five, Charlotte's parents had tried every treatment available to them. But she was still experiencing brutal seizures, sometimes every 30 minutes. At the peak of Charlotte's battle with Dravets, she experienced up to three hundred grand mal seizures every week.
Confined to a wheelchair, Charlotte had lost the...
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