Most people outside of Belgium won't ever have heard of Sofie Voncken,
a 6-year-old girl who appeared in June, 2015, on an episode of Koppen
on the Flemish television channel VRT. Sofie has lived since she was three
with a particularly severe form of epilepsy that unquestionably changed
her life forever. Suffering from what is called the invisible variant of the
disease, she has had the full spectrum of the most advanced conventional
medical treatments, from drugs through diets, and many hospitalisations,
all without any sign of improvement – until her desperate parents, out of all
other options, tried cannabis oil. This is her story, as told by Patrick Dewals.
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