May 1: Happy 6 Year Life Day

Today is a special anniversary.

 

Six years ago today, on May 1 2019, my son Weslee entered the hospital for an exploratory brain surgery called SEEG. He had a very rare side effect to a seizure med that caused massive brain bleeding during the surgery, so he had a stroke. He was put in a ventilator, and before he left for a Neuro rehab hospital at the end of May, he had had 8 more surgeries. He came home, finally, after a total of 35 days, still relearning to hold a cup, talk, walk, think, etc. 

It was a real struggle that first year, and lots of the side effects are still here. He still uses a cane to walk, has double vision on top of the partial blindness from 2013 surgeries. He tires easily and has to take a nap almost daily. He has huge gaps in his memory, has developed a facial 'tic', and still has the brain drain (shunt).

Oh, and he still has seizures.

I am so thankful every day for Mr. Shane, the nurse on the ICU floor who first noticed Weslee wasn't responding to stimuli as expected.  He noticed it in the nick of time; his surgeon said Weslee would have died that night if Shane hasn't caught it, and if the surgeon hadn't immediately taken him back to the OR for emergency surgery.

So...today, Weslee and I will celebrate his LIFE day.  (Well, **I** will.  Weslee doesn't like to think about it. I completely understand.)

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Please help with Weslee's medical and related expenses, then share the link(s) everywhere. Check out the GoFundMe ... https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8wuy7-help-weslee-and-family-with-medical-expenses

Here is the GoFundMe tiny URL: https://tinyurl.com/bdccbkpj

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If donatìng through PayPal is easier... Click here.  

Thank you.