Saskatchewan couple struggles to pay for daughter’s potentially lifesaving medication [Video]

A Saskatchewan couple is hoping a last-resort medication can save their daughter’s life, but the treatment is expensive.

Friends and family describe 19-year-old Emilie Samson as an avid dancer, proficient student and a kind person.

“We pretty much had no issues with her. She was like a poster girl growing up,” her father Noel Samson said.

Emilie’s world was turned upside down last year. A month before her high school graduation, doctors found three life-threatening, noncancerous tumors on her brainstem and spinal cord. She also has hydrocephalus, a build up of fluid on her brain.

Doctors performed surgery, but found the tumour on her brainstem was inoperable. She then underwent radiation, which was unsuccessful.

“She lost her mobility, she lost some of her eyesight, and we have been back and forth to the hospital since August,” her mother Michelle Samson said.

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