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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 472261" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>Thanks Janet, that is really helpful to know. No he did not have a birth injury. Honestly I don't remember if I did say what happened. sorry. Ignore this folks who have heard the story...</p><p></p><p>He was born to a drug addicted mom and dad, but mom did check into treatment and was clean for the entire time she knew she was preggers. He also tested clean at birth. Allowed to go home with her. She and hubby started dealing/using again and at 7 mo. they got onto a high speed car chase and crased the car with him in front no car seat. HE WAS OK!!! But he went to foster care right then. they tried with her again...dad actually volunteered to give up custody and cried horribly, wanted a better life for his son. </p><p></p><p>AT one he started having seizures. By age 2 his school and foster mom were concerned that neuro was doing no testing to see why seizures and so school got sw to get a new neuro. At 2-3mo. he went to that neuro. He sent him for emergency CAT scan and they saw a huge mass ....report says it was the size of a beefsteak tomato. SO he had high pressures for over a year and it ended up being a Cavernous Angioma which is a blood filled vessel (low pressure not an avm) and it had leaked several times so he had several strokes. This is where I get sad, if he had had the cat at the beginning of seizures.........</p><p></p><p>So when they got in his entire brain was shifted to the left causing a mass injury. They had to remove some of the rt. fronal and temporal lobes. </p><p></p><p>He was in the hospital all of TWO days. I had already applied to adopt him but didn't know I was selected. They found it then called me and asked if I still wanted him. UMMMMMMMM... if he was my birth child i would still keep him so yes....I know it is different but to me, my heart felt lead to it. I wasn't desperate, I had already declined placement of girl twins....and I loved them too in my heart (only pics the didn't meet me and never knew about me....). I just couldn't negotiate what I knew they would need and I could not do a poor job of parenting them..... so sad. But that is not the case with Q. They felt he would heal and recover and the issues would just resolve....everyone , therapists, sw, neuro thought that. One psychiatric said she still thought he was autistic. SO she was right. </p><p></p><p>That's difficult child's story.....bummer huh? but for a kid who should be dead, much less not walking or talking, he is doing pretty fantastic!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 472261, member: 12886"] Thanks Janet, that is really helpful to know. No he did not have a birth injury. Honestly I don't remember if I did say what happened. sorry. Ignore this folks who have heard the story... He was born to a drug addicted mom and dad, but mom did check into treatment and was clean for the entire time she knew she was preggers. He also tested clean at birth. Allowed to go home with her. She and hubby started dealing/using again and at 7 mo. they got onto a high speed car chase and crased the car with him in front no car seat. HE WAS OK!!! But he went to foster care right then. they tried with her again...dad actually volunteered to give up custody and cried horribly, wanted a better life for his son. AT one he started having seizures. By age 2 his school and foster mom were concerned that neuro was doing no testing to see why seizures and so school got sw to get a new neuro. At 2-3mo. he went to that neuro. He sent him for emergency CAT scan and they saw a huge mass ....report says it was the size of a beefsteak tomato. SO he had high pressures for over a year and it ended up being a Cavernous Angioma which is a blood filled vessel (low pressure not an avm) and it had leaked several times so he had several strokes. This is where I get sad, if he had had the cat at the beginning of seizures......... So when they got in his entire brain was shifted to the left causing a mass injury. They had to remove some of the rt. fronal and temporal lobes. He was in the hospital all of TWO days. I had already applied to adopt him but didn't know I was selected. They found it then called me and asked if I still wanted him. UMMMMMMMM... if he was my birth child i would still keep him so yes....I know it is different but to me, my heart felt lead to it. I wasn't desperate, I had already declined placement of girl twins....and I loved them too in my heart (only pics the didn't meet me and never knew about me....). I just couldn't negotiate what I knew they would need and I could not do a poor job of parenting them..... so sad. But that is not the case with Q. They felt he would heal and recover and the issues would just resolve....everyone , therapists, sw, neuro thought that. One psychiatric said she still thought he was autistic. SO she was right. That's difficult child's story.....bummer huh? but for a kid who should be dead, much less not walking or talking, he is doing pretty fantastic! [/QUOTE]
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