"At first, she didn't worry about it... a birthmark. When she mentioned it to Jasmine's pediatrician at her first visit, the doctor suggested something unexpected - that Jasmine might have something called Sturge-Weber syndrome," Gourdeau says.
"I just wanted to know if there was something wrong and if she needed to be treated," Gourdeau says.
The results confirmed what the doctors suspected - Jasmine had Sturge-Weber syndrome, a rare neurological condition accompanied by a port wine birthmark and seizures. "Everything I (read about the syndrome) absolutely terrified me," Gourdeau says.
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