Living with Epilepsy: Ashleys story We first told you about Ashley Burlison 12 years ago, a young girl suffering from severe epilepsy. Her family says doctors did not expect her to live past age 12. They call her survival a miracle. Esther Burlison recalls the day her daughter Ashley, the youngest of two children was born. She says, When Ashley was born, she had a stroke which caused her to have some brain damage, which caused her to have severe epilepsy. We brought the equipment home trying to control her seizures because Ashley was one of the hardest patients to try to control the seizures, no matter what they tried, it just didnt work. Esther says Ashley had more than a hundred severe seizures a day. She also has cerebral palsey. Mom says her prognosis was grim. Ester says, They told us that she wouldnt be alive, that epilepsy would eventually take her little life, that she wasnt suppose to be here when she was 12. She was severe, and shes 24. God is good, God is good. Burlison says, Shes had two brain surgeries, and she had a vagus nerve implant and what the vagus nerve is its like a little pace maker they put in your chest, and they run it up to your vagal nerve stem. It either controls your epilepsy or it stops it. It controlled Ashleys. That made a big difference in our life. Everything shes not suppose to be doing, shes doing. Shes actually working. Weve never hidden Ashley from the world. Hes been on jet skis, shes been horse back riding. Where we come from to now, its a miracle. More - counton2/story/25795564/living-with-epilepsy-ashleys-story
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000