ATLANTA — Haleigh Cox’s seizure disorder makes all her days hard. She has up to 100 seizures a day. When her breathing stopped earlier this month, her mom, Janea Cox, thought she had lost her only child.
Since then, the Forsyth 4-year-old has been struggling at Children’s Hospital at Egleston in Atlanta, tied into tubes that keep her alive.
Her family has tried dozens of medications and treatments, and now it is desperately seeking another one.
That medicine is a capsule containing extracts from marijuana, a drug that’s illegal in all forms in Georgia.
“I’m in contact with several families in Colorado at the moment with this same diagnosis as Haleigh,” Cox said. Some of them have gone down from as many as 300 seizures daily to as few as one a week or month, she said. Mother and daughter were packing their bags for Colorado recently when the latest crisis hit.
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