She was put on anti-epileptic drugs to try to control the fits. At five they said she would never read or write. So she goes to a special school. When she was younger you couldn't take her to a supermarket because she would run amok, pulling things off the shelves. She now has so many fits I couldn't count them.
Nights are worst.
She wakes four or five times screaming like a baby. Although she is crying for mummy, she doesn't know who I am for several minutes. As if all this wasn't sapping enough, we have had a dreadfully difficult time fighting for compensation. You have to prove to the Department of Health that your child is vaccine-damaged and is more than 80 per cent disabled as a result. I know parents who have. been turned down because they say the child is 79.5 per cent disabled.