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Three-year-old Leni Young, the victim of a stroke in utero, had listened to the Disney movie “Frozen” many times in her life. But it wasn’t until beginning treatment with medical cannabis that Leni could lift her head and watch Queen Elsa and Princess Anna for the first time.
“It was miraculous,” Amy Young, her mother, said. “It was wild. Still, right now, thinking about it, it is hard to wrap your head around it.”
Leni, now 9 years old, continues to battle a spate of medical issues stemming from that prenatal stroke. The stroke destroyed 85 percent of her brain, and she was born with only a small portion of her frontal lobe intact. While she remains non-ambulatory and non-verbal, one of the most life-altering challenges for the young Alabama girl was the seizures that began when Leni was about 7 months old, which were a result of the stroke and brain damage, her mother said.
Doctors at Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham put her on high doses of pharmaceuticals, like Klonopin, but nothing worked, according to her mother. Doctors had suggested “letting her go,” but the Youngs were determined to not give up.
“She was having seizures hundreds of times per day,” Amy said. “She was our teeny, tiny, beautiful little girl. We kept trying, kept looking. There has got to be something.”
Amy said the family found other families…
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