On this journey, you are Never Alone.
Meet Micah
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…
On this journey, you are Never Alone.
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,…
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…
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…
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…