Tucker -Dup15q Family Story

August 23, 2016

Awareness for Dup15q Syndrome is so important to me because first, I like to show that special needs people need people to understand what they go through. Growing up, I remember sooo many people being picked on and if I ever thought that was happening to Tucker, scary things could happen. And secondly, I need, need, need to show that Epilepsy research is nowhere near where it should be. We need new meds, badly. LGS is known for being medicine resistant. We’re blessed with a neuro that will not give up because we know eventually we could strike gold and if we don’t, we’ve tried our absolute best that we could.” – Shannon Davison mom to Tucker

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