How a Mom’s Late-Night Google Search Uncovered a Hidden Danger After Her Son’s Mysterious Collapse
Children and infants are more inclined to suffer sudden deteriorations
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Among kids and infants, the condition more often than not goes undetected until the hemorrhage has progressed, and this is because they have difficulty accurately explaining what they are experiencing.
“And so for little kids, when we get to a point where this becomes emergent, where there’s an emergency, what we see are things like vomiting, projectile vomiting, floppiness, so this loss of muscle tone in infants especially.”
“And it can be mistaken for something that’s not as severe. The vomiting can be easily mistaken for flu,” Lee says, as a nod to Daniels’ experience.
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She explains that although sudden deterioration like Witten’s is rare; it is more common in children.
Upon experiencing symptoms, individuals should see a doctor or go to an emergency room
Responding to the question on what action to take at the onset of these symptoms, Lee says that patients “certainly should take themselves to the emergency room to be checked, and that would include face drooping.”
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“That can sometimes just be something as simple as Bell’s palsy, which is not a serious condition.
“It often resolves on its own, but it can also be the sign of something more serious. It’s better to be safe.
“The folks who are having focal seizures, that’s not as much of an emergency. You can take that to your regular doctor and then get a referral to neurology for further workup to see if there is some explanation for it.”
Lee explains that the most certain way to know is through diagnosis, which usually involves a CT scan and then an MRI.
Only two percent of Cavernous Malformation patients pass away
Fortunately, Witten’s sudden deterioration is not the norm, and the suddenness with which debilitates differ from person to person.
And as harrowing and jarring as the effects may be, only two percent of diagnosed cases result in patients passing away eventually.
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“By and large, everyone else who has a cavernous malformation will either recover, and most people, even those who have brain hemorrhage, if it’s higher in the brain, frequently have good recovery, even almost back to normal, or if it’s in lower parts of the brain, they continue to have disabilities and deficits,” Lee elaborates.
Notably, due to the “higher plasticity” of children’s brains, they have a better chance of making faster and fuller recoveries.
The only way to get a sure diagnosis is with an MRI
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Lee’s organisation, Alliance to Curenotes Cavernous Malformation is a rare disease.
Be that as it may, MRIs help with diagnosis with treatment options thereafter being available.
“So if there is a referral to MRI, the diagnosis is pretty simple and straightforward. To diagnose it works,” Lee observed.
But getting a doctor to schedule an MRI can be tricky
“So what stands in the way of getting an MRI? Multiple things. First off, the doctor needs to or the health care provider needs to believe you.
“When you’re having neurological symptoms, sometimes they get tossed off as psychiatric symptoms or get attributed to some other physical disease that’s happening.
“And so it may take a while before you actually get to the point where the doctor will say, Oh, there’s something going on in your brain. We should give you an MRI.”
Children and certain “populations” are not favored candidates for MRI’s
“I think particularly there are populations in our country (the US) that don’t get the benefit of the doubt in the same way as others,” Lee observed, “and those folks typically take longer to get a diagnosis.
“A second issue that gets in the way of diagnosis is with kids,” she continued.
“Kids need to be sedated in order to have an MRI. MRI requires you to lie still for twenty five minutes or more, and children just can’t sustain that.
“So the sedation itself is a big deal. It requires time in pre op, in the MRI, and then in a recovery area.”
Witten Daniel is home and well, and planning his return to the baseball field
As a testimony to Lee’s assertions of the low mortality rate surrounding Cavernous Malformation, her daughter and Witten Daniel have made the next best thing to full recoveries.
In Daniel’s case, it was Casey’s refusal to accept her son’s fate.
Following a Google search, she connected with neurosurgeons Dr. Manish Shah and Dr. Jacques Morcos at Houston’s UTHealth.
As a result of this interaction, her son, now seven, is home again, preparing to return to the baseball field, perKCBD.
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