Our Story
A story of love, survival, and the reality of life-threatening epilepsy
Meet October
October Love LaRush is a little girl with a story full of medical complexity, resilience and unconditional love.
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From the very beginning, her life has been marked by extremely rare and dangerous medical diagnoses, hospital stays, and moments that no parent is ever prepared for.
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But beyond the machines, the diagnoses, and the uncertainty: she is strong, deeply loved, and endlessly fighting.
Our Journey
Our lives changed the moment October was born.
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She lives with a rare, complex, and drug-resistant form of epilepsy, the kind that is not easily controlled, not well understood, and rarely seen.
Her seizures don’t just interrupt her day.
They stop her breathing.
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October is palliative. There is no defined life expectancy. Every day with her is uncertain, and every moment matters.
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There have been moments where we have had to resuscitate our own child.
Moments where hospital teams have crowded her room.
Moments where crash carts have been lined up beside her crib
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Her seizures can require the use of a bag valve mask, not as a possibility, but as part of her reality.
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This is what our life looks like.
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It means watching every breath.
It means never fully sleeping.
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It means living in a constant state of readiness: knowing that at any moment, everything can change.
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When we left the hospital, we left with the training, the responsibility, and the fear; but without a community.
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There was no roadmap.
No one who truly understood.
We went home alone into a life that now revolves entirely around seizures, oxygen levels, and one question that never leaves:
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Is she breathing?
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October Love Foundation was created from that reality:
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Because families like ours are being sent home to manage life-threatening conditions alone.
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We created October Love Foundation so no parent has to face those moments without support, training, and protection.