Cork family hope that Tristan's life will be changed by US cannabis treatment

In most homes with young children you will find evidence of their little lives everywhere. Yvonne Cahalane’s house in Dunmanway county Cork is no exception.

Tiny clothes are drying near a radiator, a shiny yellow plastic car lies abandoned on the couch and the Minions DVD is playing in the background.

But between the scattered toys in Yvonne's home there are other items. A large hold-alls containing piles of boxes of prescription medications, complicated-looking first aid kits and an oxygen tank.

For Yvonne, her husband John and their two sons; Oscar who is three, and Tristan (pictured) who turns two in December, this medical paraphernalia are a part of their everyday life.

 

Tristan was diagnosed with Dravet syndrome about a year ago. Dravet syndrome, also known as Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy, is a rare and aggressive form of intractable or, uncontrollable, epilepsy. It is genetic and therefore inoperable....

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