Film night – report
As usual we gathered for Film Night on the fourth Sunday of the month.
This month we had a really interesting film entitled ‘Do no Harm’. It was about a little boy who suffered from a severe form of epilepsy, who was prescribed anti-epilepsy medication which firstly adversely affected his behaviour and then required him to be hospitalised. He was given medication to try and control his epilepsy but the drugs he was given all interacted together producing a cocktail of side effects which required him to stay in hospital. His parents were told that his only hope was brain surgery.
In her desperation his mum researched his condition and found that a hospital in Baltimore treated their epileptic patients with a ketogenic diet, with a good success rate. After overcoming many obstacles, the little boy was finally transferred to this hospital. He had to fast for two days and then the ketogenic diet was introduced. Almost immediately he recovered and finally he was free from epilepsy. Ketogenic diet – I hear you say, how can that make a difference? Surely this is a modern diet fad? Well, no actually, the ketogenic diet was introduced in the 1930’s purely to help patients with epilepsy. You can read all about this on Epilepsy Action www.epilepsy.org.uk.
What was amazing was that some of the actors in the film, were not actors at all! They were actual people who had suffered from the condition, had gone onto the ketogenic diet and been successfully treated. What a story.
We have great films, great company, refreshments and pizza midway through the film – why not come along when you can – make it a date!
We’d love to see you.
Remember – 4th Sunday of the month !