What A Difference A Day Makes: Sandy Kelly on daughter's early health issues

"I was 16 when my mum had her haemorrhage, and I learned then if you show composure and are ‘sensible’, doctors tend to talk to you more. That was the way back then."

Sandy Kelly, right, with her daughter Barbara.

My daughter Barbara was born in 1981. At two weeks old, everything appeared ok. But when I brought her home, I witnessed what I thought were seizures.

I was familiar with these — my mother had passed away two years prior with a brain haemorrhage. She’d had her first haemorrhage eight years earlier, at 39. After surgery, she had epilepsy.