My son had surgery for 3 aneurysms 5 years ago. At 8am he was a normal 6 year old boy, going with his mom to LA Fitness. Then at 8:30 I got a call that he couldn't get up off the floor. An MRI showed 3 golf ball sized aneurysms, and they put him in a helicopter from Tucson to Phoenix, about 100 miles apart. I was pretty crippled by fibromyalgia at the time, my wife was 7 months pregnant, and they wouldn't let us fly with him. We cried driving two hours to learn if our kid lived or not.
They used superglue to plug the fistula at Barrow's in Phoenix Arizona, they went up through the leg. http://www.thebarrow.org/index.htm Amazingly, he was walking again within 4 days and home within 7 days. I have a friend that had the same surgery 5 years before; she was there for months recovering from the clip method.
My son was ok for 4 1/2 years, but for unknown reasons he had another brain issue in December that caused temporary paralysis for a few hours. They went spelunking again and found nothing. They did decide that the 5 year old repair had healed perfectly. Dr. Cameron McDougall the surgeon was just beaming with happiness when he told us that.
My kid is doing well, he is pretty smart. He attends the hardest charter school in Arizona, BASIS. He is 11 years old, and I am his angel investor (Total investment about $500) in his website http://legimon.com which is his version of Pokemon. Total revenue so far is $282.00 and about $40 in profit for some t-shirts. He was quite amazed when I told him how long he would have to scrub toilets at McDonalds to make that much money. We then had an hour long discussion about trademark law; he knew more than I did. He has been doing all the wordpress and photoshop work lately, and he works about 3 hours a day on it, everyday for the last three years. He has developed 400 characters and tells me that he is not stopping until he passes Pokemon's 700+.. He has planned out the app, the Xbox game, the VR headset upgrade for gokart racing, and the theme park. I couldn't be more proud of him.
I keep a photo of him in the hospital taken right after they used a cordless drill to put a hole in his skull. He looks like corpse, his head is half shaved, his spine is twisted sideways and the drain from his skull is a bright orange. I use it when I am having a bad day at work, as a reminder of what a bad day really is.
I don't have anything to ask, just wanted to say that this is an amazing story. Can't imagine going through that with a kid of mine and him doing so well now makes me happy for you guys! All the best to you and your family.
People have asked me "How were you so strong" which is flattering but not true. The truth is that I had no choice and that I was going along for the ride. I was not strong, I merely had no choice.
Thanks for your kind words. He does make me appreciate everything else more.
They used superglue to plug the fistula at Barrow's in Phoenix Arizona, they went up through the leg. http://www.thebarrow.org/index.htm Amazingly, he was walking again within 4 days and home within 7 days. I have a friend that had the same surgery 5 years before; she was there for months recovering from the clip method.
My son was ok for 4 1/2 years, but for unknown reasons he had another brain issue in December that caused temporary paralysis for a few hours. They went spelunking again and found nothing. They did decide that the 5 year old repair had healed perfectly. Dr. Cameron McDougall the surgeon was just beaming with happiness when he told us that.
My kid is doing well, he is pretty smart. He attends the hardest charter school in Arizona, BASIS. He is 11 years old, and I am his angel investor (Total investment about $500) in his website http://legimon.com which is his version of Pokemon. Total revenue so far is $282.00 and about $40 in profit for some t-shirts. He was quite amazed when I told him how long he would have to scrub toilets at McDonalds to make that much money. We then had an hour long discussion about trademark law; he knew more than I did. He has been doing all the wordpress and photoshop work lately, and he works about 3 hours a day on it, everyday for the last three years. He has developed 400 characters and tells me that he is not stopping until he passes Pokemon's 700+.. He has planned out the app, the Xbox game, the VR headset upgrade for gokart racing, and the theme park. I couldn't be more proud of him.
I keep a photo of him in the hospital taken right after they used a cordless drill to put a hole in his skull. He looks like corpse, his head is half shaved, his spine is twisted sideways and the drain from his skull is a bright orange. I use it when I am having a bad day at work, as a reminder of what a bad day really is.
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