One of the upsides to aging is the opportunity to observe how this crazy world changes. I find the gradual acceptance of marijuana fascinating. Sunday night, I eagerly watched Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s CNN program “Weed”. At the center of the story is a Colorado family dealing with one of their twin daughters suffering from a severe seizure disorder. Some additional reading brought to light that the little girl seizures stem from a mutation in the SCN1A gene. My daughter’s seizures are caused by the same mutation. Dr. Gupta’s report goes on to illustrate how the parents, with no other options, tried medical marijuana with miraculous results. 300 seizures a week were reduced to one seizure every seven days. There are no side-effects. The little girl is gaining ground on every level. It is a tremendous story that everyone should know. But I can’t shake the stupefying irony to all this. I keep thinking that all the hell that Megan as endured, all the nightmares Betsy and I have shared, might have been avoided if we hadn’t cared so much. Rather than relying so heavily on the best possible medical care and devoting a large part of our lives to searching for answers, we might have been further ahead by establishing a good connection with the neighborhood pot dealer and teaching Megan how to do bong hits.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 01:35:11 +0000
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