Lia Lee was the daughter of Hmong refugees; she started having seizures at three months old. Lia’s parents were reluctant to give her medication because they believed her seizures indicated spiritual giftedness. Her American doctors did not understand Hmong shamanism culture or the traditional remedies that her family used. Lia’s parents spoke limited English, and the hospital had no Hmong interpreter on staff. The medical team was worried about Lia’s health, so they had her removed from her home and placed into foster care where health continued to deteriorate.
Read about Lia’s condition: https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lennox-gastaut-syndrome
Write an explanation of this rare form of epilepsy that you could share with Lia’s parents. Your goal is to convince them to allow the doctors to treat Lia while also showing that your respect their culture and beliefs. Use first person point of view. For this exercise, you may assume the hospital has hired a translator.
The explanation does not have to be long just a paragraph or maybe two
Lia's health condition is called lennox gastaut syndrome, this is rare form of epilepsy. During the epilepsy the person has electrical current passing through the brain. Thats why the person having sudden jerky movement, twist of face to on eside, loss of consciousness etc happening. Most of the situations it can be controllled with medication, but in Lia's case it is not possible. But the good thing is that the episode may not be that much long in lia's and may not be more than three times a day usually.
Another problem assosciated with this condition is that as far the episode go long there will be significant intelectual disability and developmental delays in her. Also the person with this kind of disorder should have a lesser life span compared to other persons. But for a quality of life and improved life conditions she has to be treated with medication and it will help her in better way. This disorder is not due to any other spirits coming to the body but it is due to the change in the neurochemicals in the brain and as a result of it electrical current is paassing the\rough it
Lia Lee was the daughter of Hmong refugees; she started having seizures at three months old....