NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — A terrible incident that happened to a North Charleston woman as a child turned into inspiration for a new law in South Carolina to help people who experience seizures.
“Yes, I was 6 years old, and I was stabbed in the eye with a pencil by a classmate,” JenVon Cherry said.
Cherry’s family lived in Washington, DC at the time. Two weeks later, she experienced a grand mal seizure. Part of the pencil lead had lodged in her brain. Doctors performed emergency surgery, but the injury caused her to become epileptic…