Ireland: Plea for €35k for medical marijuana treatment
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Yvonne Cahalane, from Dunmanway in West Cork, said she needs to raise €35,000 to fund the treatment for her 21-month-son, Tristan, who has a very rare form of epilepsy which triggers severe seizures.
“We missed out on a place on a medical trial in Carolina because he was too young,” Yvonne said.
“But a neurologist in a hospital in Colorado has agreed to take him on. We would like to be there early in the new year, and we are starting him on a new medication soon to stabilise him for travel. We hope that one year in the States will be enough.”
Tristan was diagnosed late last year with Dravet Syndrome — a rare and severe form of epilepsy. He suffers up...
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