Posts tagged epilepsy
Episode 374: She Says She Wouldn't Be Alive Today Without Cannabis

Over the course of the last decade, Jessamyn Way from Oregon has undergone 5 brain operations, one of which she was given only a 5 to 10% chance of survival and told that if she did survive it was unlikely she would be able to walk or talk normally. The multiple pharmaceuticals she was taking resulted in two miscarriages and it was only when she started using cannabis she was able to have two beautiful daughters. Last summer, she spent 28 days in hospital after doctors operated on her to deal with her severe epilepsy. Jessamyn is joined by her husband Todd to tell her inspiring story.

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Episode 373: From 500 Seizures A Month To Seizure Free Thanks To Cannabis Oil

Her son Alfie was born with a rare form of genetic epilepsy. He suffered his first seizure at 8 months old and his condition progressively worsened. In 2016, at the age of 5, he was admitted to hospital 48 times as a result of being unresponsive to anti-epilepsy drugs and was receiving up to 25 doses of steroids a month. But Hannah Deacon of the UK was desperate to save her son and went to the Netherlands to try cannabis oil—and it worked. Alfie has been seizure free for almost 3 years.

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