By Julie L Hutchison | President, Co-Founder and Chelsea's Mother
We wanted to update you on this project. This is an ongoing project as we receive 10-15 requests a month from families who are desperate for a night's sleep. Since we started providing monitors to those in need in 2010, we have had the priviledge of providing 363 across the US, some in Canada and even one in Australia. We currently have eight families in line to receive them as funds arrive.
So many of our families are sleep deprived, afraid they might miss a loved one's seizure while sleeping. These monitors provide families with a line of defense in preventing SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy) and allow for some sleep at night. Epilepsy affects over 3 million Americans of all ages. Almost 500 new cases of epilepsy are diagnosed every day and it is estimated that up to 50,000 Americans die from seizures and seizure-related causes every year in the United States.
"Without my SAMiAlert Monitor, my son may not even have his diagnosis. The symptoms we saw were too vague to call seizures. We suspected nocturnal seizures for a long time, but could not prove he was actually having them. When we finally learned about movement monitors, we obtained one immediately. After hooking it up, within a few days, we had several seizures recorded of various types."
"We knew our daughter was having a lot of seizures, so we were blessed with a monitor through The Chelsea Hutchison Foundation. We did not know until we received the monitor that she was having multiple seizures every night right around the same time."
We appreciate your support more than we can express in words! We have a few other Globalgiving projects we'd like to share with you.
Epilepsy Awareness Day at Disneyland
A Seizure-Response Service Dog for Zachary
A Seizure-Response Service Dog for Parker
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