TOPEKA — Kiley Klug, a young mother from Odin, Kan., gave birth to a healthy baby boy eight years ago following a normal pregnancy. But within six months, she and her husband began to realize their child, Owen, would be anything but normal.
"Out of nowhere at 6 months of age, Owen began having seizures. And they haven't stopped since," she said.
Owen suffers from Dravet Syndrome, she said. It's a rare and catastrophic form of epilepsy that occurs in fewer than one in 15,000 infants. Klug said it causes Owen to have multiple seizures a day.
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