Mohammad Halabi tries to comfort his daughter, Mia, while she experiences an epileptic seizure after her arrival in Colorado Springs from New York City on Oct. 12. His wife, Miriam, brought their 2-year-old to join Halabi in Colorado Springs to see whether an oil from a special strain of marijuana would help the child. (Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette)
COLORADO SPRINGS When Mohammad Halabi was a boy, his parents fled war in Lebanon to give their child a chance at life.
This month, as Halabi drove to Denver International Airport to pick up his wife and 2-year-old daughter, he realized he was doing the same thing.
Halabi's daughter, Mia, has severe epilepsy. Treatment by some of the country's best neurologists and with the most powerful drugs has done little. This year, doctors told him to prepare for her death.
"No matter what we did, nothing helped. She just got worse until she was almost a vegetable," he said. "She had no chance at life."
Then in July, he and his wife, Miriam, saw an online video of a Colorado Springs girl's astounding recovery from epilepsy using an oil made from a special strain of marijuana. The Halabis live in New York City, where medical marijuana is illegal.
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Families with kids with epilepsy come to state for marijuana oil