This is a seizure that Raelynn recently had. Skip ahead to 02:21 if you just want to see it. But keep watching to learn about this channel!
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I’m not sure I ever shared how Raelynn’s YouTube channel came to be. When we first brought Raelynn into our home through foster care, we started recording her seizures right away in order to share the videos with her doctors so that Raelynn would get better care. At the time, we used an app called Seizure Tracker, which would upload the videos to YouTube, where we kept the videos unlisted so that only her doctors could see them.
Then one day in 2020, after everything had been shut down for a month and we were all pulling our hair out because there was nothing to do, I checked her channel and saw that each video had over 1,000 views. I thought, “Huh, that’s interesting.”
So we recorded a few other videos of Raelynn doing some other things, like using the Tobii Dynavox, and just going for a walk, and I thought it was really cool how Raelynn was beginning to inspire people just by being herself.
A few of Raelynn’s videos get a lot of comments from teachers, nurses, and doctors, thanking me for showing what Raelynn’s seizures look like so that they’ll be better prepared if they ever encounter them in their occupations.
Since then, I’ve shared over a hundred of Raelynn’s seizures on this channel.
Visit Raelynn’s website to learn even more! hopeandsunshine.tv
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The links below show a few seizures Raelynn has had throughout the years:
▶️ 17 months old: youtu.be/6BEdEB-OJXw
▶️ 18 months old: youtu.be/XhZMx7GHzBk
▶️ 21 months old: youtu.be/WXOeCJKECb8
▶️ 2 years old: youtu.be/om0LVyj74Xs
▶️ Almost 3 years old: youtu.be/pVMUT-pg0zU
▶️ 6 years old: youtu.be/EYNXrQSr9ug
▶️ 8 years old: youtu.be/GcIrDB5qkT0
A few playlists you may find helpful:
⏩ Seizures: youtube.com/watch?v=…
⏩ Tobii Dynavox: youtube.com/watch?v=…
⏩ Assistive Equipment: youtube.com/watch?v=…
⏩ Medical Procedures: youtube.com/playlist…
⏩ Living Life with Disabilities: youtube.com/playlist…
ABOUT RAELYNN’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL
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, “God 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).
If this sounds like something you could benefit from, please consider subscribing! Your subscription will help us keep making videos of Raelynn’s life and assistive technologies! ❤️
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