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On this journey, you are Never Alone.

In Loving Memory of Jayden Burns

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…

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In Memory of Rebekah Selah Anglin

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…

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Meet Olive

Our little unicorn

I’m a mom of four and my sweet Olive is our rainbow baby and our little LGS warrior, who is now four years old. She was a healthy newborn who underwent cardiac arrest at three months old and had anoxic…

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In Memory of Johnathan Rush, Jr.

3/19/2004 - 10/01/2016

Johnathan was my first born. He was born premature and not breathing. Because of his traumatic birth, his brain endured an injury that caused a variety of disorders. One the many we would later discover was Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. His journey…

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In Memory of Brian Jason Roedl

6/26/1973 - 12/16/2016

Brian was the oldest of our three sons. He began having petit mal seizures (head drops) at 9 months old. On the day of his first MMR vaccination, he encountered his first tonic-clonic seizure. It lasted approximately 15 minutes. Until…

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In Memory of Aidan Nichols Long

4/17/2004 - 1/14/2021

Aidan was born in Kalispell, Montana in 2004 and was a healthy, curious and very talkative little boy. He grew up loving the Montana way of life. He enjoyed camping, canoeing, collecting insects and fishing with dad. He loved books,…

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In Memory of Joseph Michael Manson

01/05/2010 -04/14/2022

Joseph was born with a rare medical condition called cobolomine e abnormality he was the first in the US and first at birth in the world. Joseph fought a hard fight and showed them it can be done he got…

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In Memory of Rowan Wade Martin

11/25/2016 - 4/08/2022

There is so much. It was a long journey, yet not long enough all at once. For 5 years he consumed me. I will always miss him. I don’t even know what to say to explain our story. He was…

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In Memory of Matthew Leavens

9/16/1995 - 9/13/2013

Matthew’s spirit lives on today through having touched many lives in his almost 18 years. I noticed Matt’s seizures, which presented as stretching episodes, on our first day home from the hospital. After two months of the pediatrician telling me…

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Living with LGS: Julian’s Story

Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) is a rare and severe epilepsy disorder that begins in early childhood and affects “approximately 48,000 children and adults in the United States” and “1 million worldwide,” according to the LGS Foundation. This constitutes for only 1…

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