Gwenevere Repetski was just an infant when she was diagnosed with epilepsy, a debilitating neurological disorder because of which she experienced constant sub-clinical seizures throughout the day — sometimes up to 50 a day.
Gwenevere’s seizures were so bad, she could hardly function. “She was kind of like a bag of Jell-O,” said her mother, Reagan Repetski. The family had tried nine anti-epileptic medications to reduce the number of seizures, but nothing worked. That’s when Gwenevere’s desperate father Alex Repetski decided to look into cannabis oil – an untested, unproven and illegal treatment.
“At that point, we really didn’t have anything to lose,” he said, as he recalled the stressful and emotional struggle of trying to help his daughter achieve a better quality of life.
Alex spent 18 months and more than 800 hours reading about cannabis oil and about how cannabidiol or CBD, one of the chemical compounds in marijuana, could help control Gwenevere’s seizures without causing the typical marijuana high.
Asking his daughter to smoke the marijuana wasn’t an option. So Alex learned how to take the dried marijuana his daughter was allowed to have and create marijuana oil in his kitchen. In November 2014, Alex began giving a small amount of cannabis oil to his daughter orally, three times a day. Since then, she hasn’t had a single seizure.
According to Collective Evolution, prior to the cannabis oil use Gwenevere was in an almost vegetative state and was functioning at the level of a four month old baby, even at the age of two. Now, she is a thriving three-year-old bounding ahead in her development.
“She’s crawling, she’s learning to walk, she’s playing with toys, she’s feeding herself, she’s bothering her brother – her quality of life is 1,000 per cent increased,” Alex told CTV News.
For eight months, the Repetskis had been breaking the law by giving their daughter cannabis oil. In June 2015, when Gwenevere turned 3, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that medical marijuana patients will able to consume marijuana — and not just smoke it — as well as use other extracts and derivatives since “the current restriction to dried marijuana violates the right to liberty and security in a manner that is arbitrary and hence is not in accord with the principles of fundamental justice”.
A Little Girl With Epilepsy Tries Cannabis OilThis little girl with epilepsy was having 40-50 seizures a day. Her father decided to take matters into his own hands and try cannabis oil. Get more stories like this: http://go.collective-evolution.com/stay-aware/
Posted by Collective Evolution on Tuesday, January 26, 2016
According to a 2015 study, presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 67th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, Cannabis oil shows great promise for reducing seizures in severely epileptic children who have not responded to other forms of treatment. For the 137 people who completed the 12-week study, the number of seizures decreased by an average of 54 percent from the beginning of the study to the end.
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