Types of Seizures and Hayley Rose

Hayley Rose: She was diagnosed with a severe form of childhood-onset epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome when she was seven. The difficult-to-treat form of epilepsy involves frequent and multiple types of seizures and kills most children well before puberty, according to NOW. So effective was the treatment that seven to eight weeks after she started it, an electroencephalograph, or EEG, from BC Childrens Hospital showed that she no longer had encephalopathic epilepsy, meaning her LGS grand mal seizures were essentially gone and Hayley Rose just celebrated her 21st birthday. Thats six years longer than her doctors thought she would live, and she partly owes her life to medical marijuana. Hayleys doctors told her mother, Cheryl, to find a grief counsellor and prepare for the worst when Hayley was 15. Cheryl took matters into her own hands and started her on a course of cannabidiol capsules, CBD-enriched foods and smoothies. The strain of cannabis was donated by a grower. They call it Hayleys Comet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.