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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Mon Nov 24, 2014, 07:42 PM Nov 2014

Misunderstood Medicine: 'I feel like a normal boy'

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EUGENE, Ore. - A week after his eighth birthday, Forrest Smelser was diagnosed with epilepsy.

On bad days he would seize every 15 minutes.

"If he has a seizure that lasts longer than three minutes, we're venturing into brain damage territory," his mother Tanesha said.

After numerous trips to the emergency room and the doctor's office, Forrest was prescribed the anti-seizure drug Trileptal.

Tanesha said that's when things went from bad to worse.

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Misunderstood Medicine: 'I feel like a normal boy' (Original Post) n2doc Nov 2014 OP

"It's working. It's WORKING!" tridim Nov 2014 #1

$$$$$$$$$ BrotherIvan Nov 2014 #2

tridim

(45,358 posts)

1. "It's working. It's WORKING!"

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 07:47 PM

Nov 2014

And yet it's still illegal for 99% of the population.

Why? I don't get it.

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)

2. $$$$$$$$$

Reply to tridim (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 08:38 PM

Nov 2014

They're willing to let people suffer and die for $$. They're willing to lock up a cancer patient or a mother who tried to help her son, people who the doctors had no help for. For $$. How twisted is that?

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