Now 17, Billy is showing more ability, engagement and steady eye contact
The boy who helped change UK law on medicinal cannabis, is showing ‘miracle changes’ in motor skills and decision making with his epilepsy kept at bay by the plant based drug.
"Certainly I can see major differences in him today. His eye contact is vastly improved and he's very engaged and enjoying lots of activities more independently. He is decision making, he is calm, happy and content and he is making choices on what he wants to eat and when. He understands when he's hungry, when he's tired and when he's ready for lots of fun and activity.
He was admitted by ambulance to hospital and desperate Charlotte went public with their plight, pushing the UK government onto a knife edge. With Billy’s condition deteriorating quickly and under intense pressure from the public, the media and lobbyists, Billy’s medical cannabis was finally administered to him in a London hospital.
“Ensuring Billy's long rest from the big seizures has, I believe, allowed some healing and a degree of recovery. He is more engaged, he is quite obviously thinking and reasoning more than he'd been able to do previously and he is better able to control his own behaviour. "So I tell him ‘no Billy’ and he stands back and starts laughing and goes again to get another reaction from me. For Billy this is fun but for me it's communication and a miracle because it’s a language he wasn’t able to speak before. Now he’s pretty fluent in teasing me and keeping me on my toes.
"But today Billy is like a new boy to me, a little boy I’m getting to know more about every day. Our language, our conversations have changed, Billy is different and over the last two years especially he has developed more and more.
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