{"id":244889,"date":"2021-05-20T07:41:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T12:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=244889"},"modified":"2021-05-17T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T22:00:16","slug":"mom-daughter-unknown-disorder-transformed-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-daughter-unknown-disorder-transformed-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom of daughter with unknown disorder: She ‘transformed’ everyone around her"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mary Lenaburg<\/a>‘s life was turned upside down at her daughter Courtney’s baptism in 1992. Lenaburg, the mother of four children \u2014 “two we lost to miscarriage, and two we got to hold” \u2014 said their son Jonathan (now 31) was three years old when Courtney was born. “So we started life with a boy and a girl, happy as a clam, walking along.”<\/p>\n

But then five-week-old Courtney responded to the cold baptismal water in an unexpected way. Lenaburg told Live Action News that her daughter “arched her back and shook, and kind of violently shook” in her arms, so much so that “I almost lost my grip on her.”<\/p>\n

Though she first thought that Courtney was simply reacting to the cold, Lenaburg soon realized that something was very wrong. Though Courtney relaxed seconds later, the violent jerks and shaking soon returned. While Lenaburg nursed Courtney in an attempt to calm and soothe her, Courtney instead clamped down on her breast and began to turn blue, manifesting “what we would come to know as a grand-mal seizure.” From there, she was rushed to the nearest emergency room.<\/p>\n