The Leaf THE LEAF Sept-Oct 17 | Page 9

Yet another personal story: - Printed with permission from Shelby’s mum, Dannielle Luttrell (Tasmania) 08/2017 Shelby was born normal without any problems. At 11 days old, soon after his vaccination I noticed my son wasn't well and I took him to hospital immediately only to be told that he had drug withdrawals and that he would be given morphine and diazepam to help him. To my horror the Doctors refused to listen, no matter how much I pleaded with them, telling them that it definitely was NOT drug withdrawal, and that my son was very sick with something I've never seen before. Knowing 100% that my son had NOT had any drugs. I pushed for more tests to find out what was wrong, it wasn't until the lumbar puncture returned with a positive result for meningitis that they started apologies etc. My son was so sick I thought he wasn't going to make it, I was beside myself. The hospital treated Shelby aggressively with 4 very strong antibiotics, and as a result my son had a bleed on both sides of the brain (His diagnosis was evolving - spastic/Quadriplegic) He wasn't the same boy I had taken in for help, my son was now permanently disabled. At around 4 years old Shelby starting having seizures sometimes up to 50 or 60 a day and that's when the Doctors started the cocktails of pharmaceutical drugs that made him an absolute zombie. My beautiful boy was a shadow of his normal self on all these drugs (Trileptal, lamotrigine, baclofen, gabapentin not to mention the prn meds) It was in 2015 that I decided to try Shelby on Cannabis oil and within 20 minutes I noticed some remarkable changes in him. He was eating and drinking without the gag reflex his dystonia was nowhere near as severe and his pain was being controlled all without any horrible side effects. Then came the biggest bonus of all, after weeks with no seizures we knew we had stumbled on a miracle. Today in July 2017 Shelby is almost 8 months seizure free and we have Full extract cannabis oil to thank for that