2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 00:28
Bentley Yoder, a little boy who was born with much of his brain outside his skull, has moved public opinion for his fierce struggle to cling to life.
The seven-month-old baby was born in Ohio and suffers from encephalocele, a rare congenital disease characterized by a lump on the brain, covered with very thin membranes, outside the skull.
The doctors who attended the minor at his birth gave him little hope of life. However, his parents, Sierra and Dustin Yoder allowed little Bentley to undergo surgery to return the brain to the skull, and according to his doctors, the boy now faces a future "as bright as his eyes," according to People reports.
"You cannot imagine the shock we suffered with such a dramatic diagnosis [of our son]," the baby's mother told People. “The specialist gave us zero hope that he could live, breathe or get ahead. My guts were churning, it made me nervous to think that I was going to have our baby, just to say goodbye when we had barely said hello, "said the woman, who lives with her husband in the town of Sugarcreek, Ohio.
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The boy, who was born on October 31, 2015, survived the first four weeks of life precariously. Months later, the parents decided to take him to Boston, Massachusetts, where experts from Boston Children's Hospital took him into their care, studying his case for four months.
The bump on his head grew every day, and so the doctors decided it was time to operate on him.
On May 24, an impressive group of 40 people under the care of Dr. Mark Proctor entered the minor into the operating room. In most cases of encephalocele, you have to amputate the part of the brain that is outside [the head] because it doesn't work, "the doctor told People. "But in his case, we made a huge effort to preserve it all."
The medical center shared details of the incredible intervention on its Facebook page:
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The child's recovery has been very positive, according to the doctors, and now the minor is recovering under the care of his family.
"We were terrified of the surgery," said the boy's mother, who faced criticism for subjecting the boy to harsh treatment. "People do not understand that we can feel their desire to live. It is like an aura surrounding it.”
The hospital shared this video about this dramatic story:
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