As a 9-month-old baby, Sylvie Lammert suffered a series of neurological episodes that would culminate in her first major epileptic seizure. While epilepsy can often be controlled, in Sylvie's case it has proven to be particularly intractable. Now 7 years old, "she has seizures and sometimes clusters of seizures every day," says her father, Warren Lammert, a Boston-based investment manager. These can range from brief eyelid flutters to episodes where she might drop whatever she's holding or fall to the ground. "Sometimes it's one or two, but other times it's waves of seizures that interrupt her ability to speak and participate. She is living with this literally every day."
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