Yvonne Cooper wants easier access to medicinal cannabis for her daughter
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Medicinal cannabis: The mother of an eight-year-old girl who suffers up to 100 seizures a day has opened up about the heartbreaking struggle she faces - between breaking the law or watching her child die.
Yvonne Cooper has called on the federal government in a last-ditch attempt for her daughter Sienna to have access to medicinal cannabis to treat her condition.
And the risk of death from one of these seizures are so great, the family, from Lake Heights, south of Wollongong NSW, are preparing for the worst.
'It used to be 'take a day at a time' [but] now we just live by the hour,' Ms Cooper told the Channel 7's Today Night Adelaide.
The family said they are living with constant fear that one of these life-threatening epileptic seizures will claim the life of their daughter, who was diagnosed with a severe intellectual disability. 'To answer the question of how long we've got? We just don't know. It's so unpredictable, all it takes is one seizure to take her life,' Ms Cooper said. Source: Mail Online
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