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Topic: Has anyone seen the movie "First Do No Harm"?

hopingandpraying
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A friend of ours sent us this movie because it reminded him of us (I think it was made in 1995 or 1996). It stars Meryl Streep as a mom looking for help for her young son who has epilepsy.

He gets progressively worse while on powerful drugs and is facing brain surgery because of increasing grand mal seizures.

While doing research at the library, the mother finds information about a ketogenic diet. This specific high fat diet helped stop seizures in other epileptics.

This movie shows the family's struggle with health, finances, ducks, etc. - a real tear jerker! I'm sure many of us can identify with it.

At least they had a diagnosis of what was wrong with their child!!

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lymeladyinNY
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Hmmm, sounds like a movie I'd like to see. Thanks for the information!

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Tracy9
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YES, my son was struggling with severe epilepsy at the time the movie came out. It made me sob, it was like watching our lives on the screen.

Thankfully that has resolved, though now I look back and think......hmmm, congenital Lyme????

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bettyg
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yes, it's been discussed before; do a search for this ... search is found at top.

type in first do no harm
medical
text
any date
leave membership no. blank; hit send

read all posts/replies; if you don't get anything, change text to subject line! hit send; hopefully you get some results.

or it could be in SUPPORT.. [Smile]

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hopingandpraying
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I think these are two different productions with the same name. The movie I saw was with Meryl Streep. The other was a PBS show.

Just wanted to clarify the difference.

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bettyg
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hoping, i watched the meryl streep one also.

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