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Longtime Surrey school trustee is retiring
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Reni Masi bows out of politics by Sheila Reynolds
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Jakob Chambers, who sports a scar on his head due to brain surgery, suffers several seizures a day. His family worries one might eventually be fatal. by Kevin Diakiw
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he lives in constant fear of when the next proverbial lightning bolt will strike her son. When it does – and it will about three times a day – the brain of Sheri Chamber’s three-year-old boy Jakob will be thrown into a complete short circuit, electrical charges jumping between neural pathways, causing his eyes to roll and
head to drop. This is the more common type of event for Jakob, called a juvenile seizure. The seizures are result of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC), which causes nonmalignant tumours to grow throughout his entire body. They invade his kidneys, heart, eyes and skin, and at this stage of his life, they are showing up in his brain. (There are about five tumours present
now, but they continue to grow in size and number). And while the frequent juvenile seizures are bad enough, they have a much more serious counterpart. That is the status seizure, a life-threatening event that throws Jakob into a prolonged series of convulsions. These seizures are troubling, violent and potentially deadly.
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a Surrey school trustee and nine years prior as a provincial MLA, Reni Masi is retiring from politics. “I’ll miss it,” he told The Leader in a one-on-one interview Thursday. “It’s the right time.” Masi said after much consideration, he’s decided three terms on Surrey’s Board of Education is enough and he’s satisfied he’s accomplished many of the things he set out to do as a trustee. His primary goal upon being elected in 2005 was to help the board focus on educational matters rather than political issues. “Obviously, I was concerned about education, as an educator,” the former Reni Masi teacher and principal says, noting trustees of varying political stripes have come together to function in a non-partisan manner better than some of their predecessors. “My focus was education, not politics.”
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