“Reggie started having seizures at age seven,” she said. “My son was having six to twelve grand mal seizures every three days.” Grand mal seizure are characterized by severe muscular convolutions, unconsciousness, followed by deep exhaustion, confusion and, usually, amnesia, migraines and nausea. Her son was nine before he was diagnosed with DRPLA, a rare progressive brain disorder. Only three people in Florida have it, according to Bundukamara. “My daughter Miah was diagnosed at age eight and started having seizures at eleven,” she said. “My husband tested positive for it. The disease is passed genetically.” The family did its research and exhausted the available medical options for their children. It was then that friends urged her to watch a Dr. Sanjay Gupta TV special last August on the encouraging results of medical marijuana use. There were several Israeli studies documenting the benefits of high-CBD (cannabidiol) marijuana oil, confirming good results for patients with severe seizures. “I’m a nurse-practitioner,” said the former nursing professor at MiamiDadeCollege’s Homestead Campus. “We went to Mexico to try stem cell therapy. We tried acupuncture. I went to Canada for homeopathic remedies. I never thought of medical cannabis before then.” Leaving Homestead, a community where they had planted deep roots and had made many friends, was a difficult decision born of necessity. “We came to Colorado in desperation,” she said. “It was the only safe access market for high-CBD marijuana.”
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