'A bright light': Cedarburg mother reflects as community lifts up daughter through brain surgery

A Cedarburg high schooler is on the road to recovery after a successful procedure Monday to stop the frequent seizures she has experienced for more than three years and a community has rallied to support her along the way.Family friends organized a GoFundMe, shared with TMJ4 by the school district, that raised $20,000 for the family of 15-year-old Sophia Ransdell.Neighbors at The Woods, a senior living community in Greenfield where Sophia's mother is the executive director, also took up a collection to help.TMJ4 met up with Janet Ransdell, Sophia's mother, on Friday. Janet serves as executive director of The Woods and was leading seniors in a yoga session days before her daughter's surgery."The smaller of the two lesions is where those seizures are originating from, and their recommended course of action would be to do a laser ablation," Janet Ransdell said. Janet Ransdell described the toll of the past several years, saying she spends roughly two hours a day on the phone managing her