Doctors still wary of risks of medical marijuana
Michelle Vermeulen's 4-year-old daughter Ava started suffering from epilepsy at 4 weeks old. The York Township family tried multiple medications to treat the seizures and found a medication that worked for a while.
"Her form of epilepsy does not respond well to medication," Vermeulen said. "The biggest side effect of the medications is that it causes permanent vision loss, causing a kind of tunnel vision. It's irreversible."
After about six months, though, the seizures came back. Then 7-month-old Ava had a hemispherectomy, removing the right side of her brain. Vermeulen said you'd never know because she's walking and talking like other kids.
"The seizures went away for about three years, but they came back again," she said. "We went back to medication. She's on Onfi, a benzine medication like Valium and Xanax, but she's still having seizures."
Vermeulen has talked with her daughter's doctors about medical cannabis to help with her...
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