A Mother’s Brave Efforts
“She was dying, she could barely walk or talk,
was unable to toilet herself and slept a similar
cycle to a newborn,” said Cheri O’Connell to The
Herald Sun , a mother of an epileptic child living in
Victoria, Australia.
“We had basically been told that there was not
too much more we could do, just to take her
home and to love her and maybe if you are lucky
she’ll get to nine, we didn’t see her having a
future at all,” Ms. O’Connell said.
Cheri O’Connell and her daughter’s story took a
turn for the better, however, after a controversial
treatment yielded some miraculous results. In
January last year, her desperate parents started
her on a cannabis mix known as a tincture, after
a cocktail of prescribed pharmaceutical
medications left her heavily sedated while failing
to stop the seizures.
In developments that have surprised doctors, one
year later, Tara is a bubbly eight-year-old and her
wheelchair is collecting dust in the corner of the
family’s home in central Victoria.
Senior clinical neuropsychologist Dr Silvana
Micallef at Austin Health saw the results for
herself, stating she saw “significantly improved
[cognitive performances]” after only 12 months.
“Since commencing medical cannabis (together
with the cessation of her seizures), there is a
convincing clinical history of improvements in all
facets of her presentation as reported by her
mother,” Dr. Micallef wrote .
Remarkably, the only ‘side-effects’ reported were
increased appetite and fatigue. The treatment
O’Connell was receiving only contained a
minuscule amount of THC, the cannabinoid
molecule responsible for the ‘high’ feeling
associated with cannabis use.
A Widespread Phenomenon
Unfortunately, Tara wasn’t the only child suffering
from seizures in the family. Her 11-year-old
brother, Sean, also had a case of epilepsy, milder
in comparison to Tara’s condition but debilitating
nonetheless. Sean could barely write due to his
condition, a challenge for a budding young artist.
After administering Sean a liquid cannabis
concentration, his disability swiftly dissipated.
After an investigation, The Herald Sun discovered
that a number of other children (approximately
70) across Australia are being administered
medical cannabis by school staff. These people
did not make any public statements however, due
to the illegal status of medical cannabis in
Australia.
Cheri O’Connell is calling for the go-ahead on
more medical cannabis studies. Parents of
children with incapacitating ailments should have
the right to treat their children with any treatment
that works, especially if other treatments are not.
70 percent of children respond positively to
seizure medication, but should the other 30
percent have to suffer? Not according to the
O’Connell family.
“We had to break the law or see her die. Any
parent will do whatever it takes to make a sick
child better.”
The use of medical cannabis has become
widespread. Old taboos and propaganda-based
beliefs surrounding cannabis have dissolved in our
current era of self-awareness and information
accessibility. The results are in, cannabis works.
By spreading this knowing, you could be saving
the lives of so many people who are suffering and
who don’t know about the remarkable healing
benefits of this little green plant.

source:::
www.collective-evolution.com/2014/07/06/8-year-old-girl-was-having-20000-seizures-a-year-and-was-given-only-a-few-months-to-live-until-she-tried-this-illegal-treatment/