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Small miracles fill Chicken Soup edition, 1/10/2010
She takes medicine and is on a ketogenic diet for the seizures. The fat in the diet controls the seizures, Schichtel said. Shes fed through a tube in her stomach. The medicine and diet, however, dont help with her development. Samantha is at the stage of a 4- to 6-month-old child. She does develop, but very slowly. With us, its about the tiny developments we see, Schichtel said. She smiled today, she made eye contact with her dad, she had a seizure-free day. Its hard to find a support group for a disease like this, she said. She cant just go to a Down syndrome or autism group. She and her husband, Bart, a Longmont engineer, find support in their parents, and once she...
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