There?s nothing worse than feeling hopeless and helpless when it comes to your child, says Anne Morgan Giroux.The Madison mother of three knows that feeling first-hand, since her oldest child, Lily, was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 2. At times, seizures were a regular, frightening occurrence for Lily. As any parent would, Giroux, 47, felt compelled to do something. So in 2007, she and her husband, David, executive director of communications for the UW System, established Lily’s Fund for Epilepsy Research. The fund is run through the UW Foundation and supports research at UW-Madison, including funding for a research fellowship position.
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