A SPLIT SECOND............
1 little boy, 1 family
CHANGED FOREVER!!!!
- Dylan Prater April, 2010
Dylan is our 10-year-old son, he has
always been very healthy and active in sports.
On Saturday 6/5/10 our world got
turned upside down......
It
was a hot sweltering Saturday, and my kids kept whining because they
were bored and it was too hot to play outside. So, I thought we would
play together by spinning each other around in my computer chair.
I spun my 7yr old daughter Jada first and she got up walking all crooked and being silly. Then it was Dylan's turn, as I spun him around in the chair, he yelled STOP, I want to get up, like he was in pain!!!
I stopped the chair but Dylan could not get up, and I thought he was playing. When he did not get up I put my hand under his arm to help him, however, he could not stand on his own and fell to floor. He did not fall very far, and the floor was carpeted, however, he started crying saying his head hurt. When I bent down to look at him, my heart jumped into my throat........when I looked at him the left side of his face was paralyzed and twitching for a couple of minutes! It looked as if he was having a stroke!
I helped him get off the floor and made our way to the sofa where he laid down. That's when I noticed his pupils got huge, he continued crying about his head hurting and wanted to go to sleep.
I spun my 7yr old daughter Jada first and she got up walking all crooked and being silly. Then it was Dylan's turn, as I spun him around in the chair, he yelled STOP, I want to get up, like he was in pain!!!
I stopped the chair but Dylan could not get up, and I thought he was playing. When he did not get up I put my hand under his arm to help him, however, he could not stand on his own and fell to floor. He did not fall very far, and the floor was carpeted, however, he started crying saying his head hurt. When I bent down to look at him, my heart jumped into my throat........when I looked at him the left side of his face was paralyzed and twitching for a couple of minutes! It looked as if he was having a stroke!
I helped him get off the floor and made our way to the sofa where he laid down. That's when I noticed his pupils got huge, he continued crying about his head hurting and wanted to go to sleep.
So I took him to local ER thinking worst case scenario would be seizures. The doc did a CT scan
and when he got the results he called me into the hall and gave me
horrible news! Dylan had excessive fluid in his brain
called (hydrocephalus) and a tumor with a cyst in his brain......these
were pinching off the 3rd ventricle
in his brain,
which allows the fluid to flow properly!
So the doc told me their hospital did not have the facilities to treat this and that he consulted with a neurologist who recommended that we get Dylan transported to University of Virginia Med. Center immediately,
which allows the fluid to flow properly!
So the doc told me their hospital did not have the facilities to treat this and that he consulted with a neurologist who recommended that we get Dylan transported to University of Virginia Med. Center immediately,
(which was 2hours away from our home!)
Thus our journey begins!!!!!!!
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