On this journey, you are Never Alone.
2/27/2020 - 8/06/2023
Frederick Reese Fox – Freddie, Frode man, Babe, Frankie Beans, Al Franken, Frazzle, Freemont, Dr. Fronkenstein – was born right at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. Nothing would ever be the same. A beautiful, shining soul in a…
7/31/1976 - 5/08/2023
Allison was diagnosed at Johns Hopkins Kennedy Institute in 1978 at 18 months old. She had numerous seizures of every type. Through all of the difficulties, she remained sweet and playful, laughing uproariously at sounds like sneezes, coughs and hiccups….
11/07/2017 - 11/30/2022
When Daniel was approximately 4 months old, we noticed that he was not meeting all of his developmental milestones. Around this same time, Daniel was hospitalized and diagnosed with Infantile Spasms. This was the first of many hospital stays to…
Micah was born a healthy and happy child. Everything was fine until around one year old. I started to notice things he could do he was having a hard time with or not doing at all. We went for test…
2/23/1987 - 3/24/2022
Rebekah was an emergency C-section in 1987. She progressed normally until, at 22 months, she suddenly experienced a horrible grand mal! There was several feet of snow outside, so the ambulance took a while! Her older brother by two years…
Hi, I’m Alejandra, Andrea’s mother, my beautiful angel who had a normal childhood until she was seven years old. I still remember waking up and hearing the sound that my little Andrea emitted, I thought she was drowning when I…
3/17/1995 - 7/16/2020
Miguel was so sweet. Such a lovely baby! He used to smile and run all the time! He was born without any problem, but, suddenly, the seizures started and never went away. He didn’t talk anymore and was submitted to…
9/14/2020 - 9/25/2022
Jayden was diagnosed with epilepsy at four months old. He has been through many hospital stays. Also, changing the dosages of his medicine. Which wasn’t working. In April of 2022, he was diagnosed with LGS. He was such a strong…
Charles (age 10)
Ironman Dad Raising Funds to provide Crucial Medical Equipment to Kids and Adults with LGS Charles will be competing in an Ironman competition to raise funds and awareness for the LGS Foundation’s Elevate Patient Assistance Program to help individuals like…
How Tracy Dixon-Salazar, PhD, the executive director of the LGS Foundation, went from a new mother to a neuroscientist, and her decades-long quest to improve the lives of patients like her daughter, Savannah.
Many who make the decision to enter the medical science field are often driven by a desire to help others. Physicians take the Hippocratic Oath and swear to treat the ill and do no harm, and researchers are, many times,…
