The Scary Truth About Seizures // A Short Film & Message of Hope

Seizures are bad. Even one seizure can frighten a person with the looming fear of seizures for many years. According to the Mayo Clinic, β€œA seizure is a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain.”

Sometimes people have seizures because they have epilepsy. Sometimes it’s because of a brain injury. And sometimes they never even find out why they had them.

But there’s something in the world even worse than seizures.

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𝗠𝗔𝗑𝗬 π—§π—›π—”π—‘π—žπ—¦ 𝗧𝗒 π—§π—›π—’π—¦π—˜ π—ͺ𝗛𝗒 𝗖𝗒𝗑𝗧π—₯π—œπ—•π—¨π—§π—˜π——!!!

▢️ Chronically Cassidy: youtube.com/chronica…
▢️ MySecretWorldOfSeizures: youtube.com/channel/…
▢️ SeizureFreeJourney: youtube.com/channel/…
▢️ Ketaki Chitale: youtube.com/KetakiCh…
▢️ My Life with Tubes: youtube.com/channel/…

𝗩𝗢𝗱𝗲𝗼 π—–π—Ήπ—Άπ—½π˜€:
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⏩ Pexels: pexels.com
⏩ Pixabay: pixabay.com

π— π˜‚π˜€π—Άπ—°:
🎡 β€œThree Little Birds Cover” by Paul John Bailey Music

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Used with permission.

🎡 Other Music from the YouTube Audio Library

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00:00 – Part 1: How Big is the Problem?
02:20 – Part 2: What Are Seizures Like?
04:30 – Part 3: Stories about Seizures
10:40 – Part 4: Hope

𝗔𝗕𝗒𝗨𝗧 π—₯π—”π—˜π—Ÿπ—¬π—‘π—‘’𝗦 π—¬π—’π—¨π—§π—¨π—•π—˜ π—–π—›π—”π—‘π—‘π—˜π—Ÿ

Raelynn has epileptic encephalopathy, global developmental delay, cerebral palsy, cortical vision impairment, and I could go on and on. In fact, I’ll go on a little more. Raelynn is quadriplegic. She has a gastro-jejunal (GJ) tube through which she “eats” all of her food. She has a vagus nerve stimulator (vns), and is currently getting intravenous immunoglobulin (ivig) treatments to hopefully help with her seizures. She regularly wears a shaker vest, uses a nebulizer, and a cough assist machine to help her breath better, especially when she seems extra susceptible to aspirating on her oral secretions.

Raelynn’s been to the doctor more times than the rest of our family combined!

In this whole situation, if we were looking for hope in our circumstances, we honestly wouldn’t find much. Raelynn will probably always be in a wheelchair. She’ll probably always be fed via a food pump. She’ll probably never talk. And she has virtually no chance of getting better.

I can’t tell you how many times people have told me, β€œGod can heal her.” I’ve actually come to find it a little funny when people say that (and I’m a pastor!). I know that God CAN heal her, and I know that God will heal her in eternity, but the point of life is not that we wouldn’t have difficult circumstances.

God is using Raelynn exactly as she is right now. I see how much I’m a better person because of Raelynn. I see the ways God has changed my family, the things He’s taught us, the people He’s put us in connection with, all because of Raelynn’s problems. When I see how much God uses her disabilities, I see that God takes the bad things, the hard things, the hopeless circumstances of our lives and brings beauty, goodness, and hope from them all.

That’s what this channel’s about.

We post videos of Raelynn’s life, seizures, and other disabilities to this channel three days a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday).

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