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It was the summer of 2016, and I was trying my best to finish my grocery shopping with three kids in tow. My list was short and the store was slow that morning. It should have been a fast and easy trip. But the calming music dancing through…

When my daughter, Austen, first started seizing at 5 months old, we were told that it was probably just febrile seizures … even when she went into a status seizure two days later, had to have a code blue called, and was transferred to a bigger hospital with…

“It’s probably just a febrile seizure. It happens to one in 25 children, and 60% of those kids will never have another one. She’s going to be fine.” Those were the words spoken to me by the emergency room doctor, a…

I was alone in the car on a hot May day. My daughter, Austen, who had just turned 1 and was baptized the previous day, slept in her car seat while my husband ran into the store.  Then the phone rang. “Her test…