Kynadee, one of Campbell’s threechildren, has had medical issues throughout her life, including respiratory and pulmonary problems,cerebral palsyand epilepsy, ABC affiliateWFAAreported. And over Labor Day weekend, she experienced 25 seizures and had to be hospitalized for 30 days.
“The seizures started happening more frequently and they changed from the normal seizures she’d been having previously,” Campbell told theWise County Messengernewspaper in September. “She’d been having multiple seizures pretty much back to back, and none of the medicines were working.”
“There’s been several times we’ve almost lost her,” Campbell’s wife Ashley added while speaking with WFAA.
A doctor recommended that the family get a seizure response dog for Kynadee.
According to theEpilepsy Foundation, this type of dog is specialized to respond to a person who has epilepsy. “This might include barking to alert family members when someone is having a seizure or activating a call system,” the foundation said on its website. “Other dogs may learn to lie next to the person having a seizure to comfort or protect them.”
The problem is that seizure response dogs are expensive — they cost $30,000 at minimum, Ashley told WFAA — and can run up to $60,000 plus medical expenses. Additionally, it could take up to six to eight months for someone on the waitlist to receive the special dog.
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“It’s not the first time the community has stepped up and helped us with Kynadee,” Campbell told theWise County Messenger. “It’s really, really, really awesome to know you live and work in a community that will go out of its way to help one another.”
PEOPLE reached out to Campbell for additional comment.
source: people.com
