Special-Needs Child Blossoms With Help of Medical Marijuana
In the six weeks since nine-year-old Haley Hilt began taking medical marijuana, her mother has already seen improvement.
Haley’s movements have become more purposeful. She’s more mobile. She’s trying to feed herself, and attempting to crawl. She’s able to stretch out her arm and give hugs and kisses, and she’s better at locating objects with the special computer she uses at school.
Most importantly, she’s having fewer seizures — between one and two per week, down from five to seven.
“It’s almost surreal,” Melissa Hilt told me, on a recent visit to their East Schodack home. “It’s like we’ve really gotten to know who she is during the past month. She’s blossomed.”
Haley has a rare form of epilepsy that has caused her to suffer from seizures since she was a baby. She cannot walk or talk or perform the basic tasks of daily living on her own, such as...
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