Susan Axelrod Discusses Epilepsy Fight On "Morning Joe"

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Susan Axelrod, wife of White House Senior Adviser David, went on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss her campaign to find a cure for epilepsy, born out of her daughter Lauren's struggle with the disorder.
Explaining that many marriages break up over the strain of caring for a child with epilepsy, Axelrod said, "I feel very blessed. There's no magic formula that kept us together. It just worked. I find it really hard to imagine going through this as a single parent. One of the things that's unique about epilepsy is that the need is sometimes so unpredictable and emergency -- or emergent -- so that unlike some of the disabilities where you sort of get into routine, you know what's happening, a seizure happens, everything else stops in everyone's lives." LinkHere
Axelrod previously detailed Lauren's history with epilepsy and the lack of available research on it in