Australia: Eatons Hill’s Jai Whitelaw Celebrates One Year Seizure Free After Starting on Cannabis Oil
JUMPING for joy might seem cliche, but pulling off the simple movement last week was a huge achievement for 11-year-old Jai Whitelaw.
The Eatons Hill youngster was once plagued by epilepsy so severe he endured one seizure ever 2.8 minutes.
On July 3, he celebrated being seizure-free for a year.
Mum, Michelle Whitelaw, who puts the transformation down to the medicinal cannabis she has been administering to him since December 2014, says the improvement in Jai’s health has also allowed him to tick off a laundry list of “firsts”.
“ ... he can brush his teeth, he can toilet, he can tell me when he needs the toilet and he can at times tell me when he’s hungry and thirsty. He couldn’t do that before,” she said.
“He wasn’t able to run, jump.
“Today (jumping for joy in the North-West News’ cover photograph), that’s another first.”
Jai, who could not chew...
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