{"id":1033,"date":"2013-05-03T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T04:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/modifiedketogenicdietforepilepsy\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2013-05-03T21:13:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T04:13:16","slug":"nora-is-big-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/modifiedketogenicdietforepilepsy\/2013\/05\/03\/nora-is-big-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nora is big news!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our local paper covered Nora’s 1-year seizure free anniversary! Front page of last Sunday’s paper! We’ve been local celebrities this week!<\/p>\n

Read the story here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.gazettetimes.com\/news\/local\/high-fat-ketogenic-diet-helps–year-old-keep-seizures\/article_ca7dc366-6d66-541a-8516-4e87be41c9c0.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo by Amanda Cowan, Corvallis Gazette-Times<\/p><\/div>\n

I joke that our paper loves a good human interest story more than anything else. Rivaled only by the traffic circle controversy, the plastic bag ban debate, and dog custody cases.<\/p>\n

Joking aside, we were pleased with their coverage of Nora’s story and explaining the ketogenic diet to a wider audience. From conversations and contacts this week, I know that our story is important to tell in our community.<\/p>\n

My goal in contacting the paper is to create awareness about the diet as an effective and doable epilepsy treatment. I think the best thing that we can do is to show other people that there is hope, and to be there to help them heal their kids. There is a big learning curve for administering this diet, but I believe in the power and dedication of parents to make it happen. By passing along our information, we can help to make a difficult thing doable and we can share the load. Our next step is to set up a support group at Doernbecher pediatrics in Portland to help other families figure out how to get started and keep it up. We are tentatively meeting with the keto-clinic staff after Nora’s next appointment–here we go!<\/p>\n

If any other keto families out there have tips or tricks for an effective support group–from either the supporting or being-supported perspective, I would love to hear it. I feel like we have an online support group going on here and it has been so valuable to us. It’s time to pass it forward.<\/p>\n

I’ve been crazy busy with school and work lately, but I have a few more recipes and ideas that are ready to be published–so stay tuned!<\/p>\n

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