"I hollered at the nurse to start CPR but the nurse just froze and kept repeating 'wake up' to Leila," Toula Porter says of the moment her daughter suffered an anoxic brain injury.
Not much is known about the actual head-on impact, but it's obvious a lot of miracles took place in that moment, not the least of which is Tyler still being alive today.
Carter Fowler was shaken by his biological father at only 5 weeks of age. While his father received a 32 year prison sentence, Carter received a life sentence worth of brain injuries.
On March 22, 2016, Emma and Richard welcomed their only child into their lives, a baby boy named Liam. After a normal and healthy pregnancy doctors never predicted what would happen shortly after their sweet son entered this world.
Holton's Heroes sponsored three special needs campers to attend the 2017 summer session of Camp Cranium—a camp dedicated to providing a one-of-a-kind experience for children with brain injuries.
While the bleeding and the stroke fortunately left Owen physically capable, it all but destroyed his speech and language.
In the fall of 2016, we received a message from Tessa's mother Jan explaining the extraordinary circumstances that brought this family together.
Wyatt's home is a household filled with love, passion, and faith — incredible family traits that would be suddenly put to the test one tragic afternoon in 2014.
Aleena was without oxygen during her birth which caused Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) and eventually lead to her being diagnosed with quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy.