My ex remarried 12 years ago, and they have three children (aside from my daughter and my son). One of the three was in a car accident, and broke his jaw, his nose, and his leg. When they went to the hospital and did an MRI of his head, they found a brain tumor.
He's 8 years old.
I've never even met him, but he's my children's half-brother. If you could keep him in your prayers, I'd appreciate it.
His name is Chayim Tzvi Ariel (Chayim Tzvi ben Henya Devorah).
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I hope he is OK, and we will pray for him and for your family..
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
May he have a refuah shelaimah, and quickly.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Prayers said.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Of course. What a shock!
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
How terrible, Lisa. I'll keep him in my thoughts.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
This is a post from Chayim Tzvi's parents:
quote:Dear Family and Friends,
As you may know, Chayim Zvi was hit by a car a few weeks before Pesach. He is doing very well, and we wanted to update you about him.
Baruch Hashem, he is recuperating very well from his broken leg and jaw, much faster than the doctors can hardly keep up with him. Just yesterday he basically pulled the metal parts that we thought would need a small surgery to take out right out of his mouth by himself! We went right to Hadassah and the doctor on shift finished the job and welcomed him to the jaw surgeon club
Now we're waiting for the orthopedic checkup, and expect the doctor to allow him to walk on his bad leg (he’s been hopping around faster than most of us can run till now!)
However, we were in for a surprise when we went back for what we thought was going to be a routine checkup on Tuesday May 13 at the neurologist. Dr. Margolin told us matter-of-factly that during the CT and MRI that Chayim Zvi had (standard procedure for car accidents involving possible head injury), a small "unexpected visitor" was discovered just between the inner surface of his skull and his brain. He didn't even mention the C word, and we understand it is pretty much a brain pimple
So they are going to go in and take it out.
This is probably one of the easiest types of brain surgery there is, and we are lucky to have the world class expert specialists at Hadassah do it as they have before hundreds of times.
He might come home a week after the operation, but will probably spend a week or so in Alyn for rehabilitation, to make sure his balance is ok. (We expect him to give the nurses a workout keeping up with him…)
Once again, we see clearly and quickly how God works and how everything is for the best. If we hadn’t gone through that car accident, we never would have discovered this!
We are so grateful to G-d that this was discovered so early, and before Chayim Zvi began to show any symptoms!
So, keep praying for Chayim Zvi ben Henya Devorah, and we'll keep you posted!
Love, Devra, Gidon, Chayim Zvi, and the gang
PS What can you do? Any thing you want not directly involving us (daven, tehillim, happy thoughts, etc). Calling or emailing your best wishes just takes up our bandwidth, so please read about the latest at http://chayimzvi.wordpress.com. If you want to come to our house and give an hour or two of housework or helping Gidon focus on his business tasks (and maybe do some) (this can also be done remotely) that would certainly be appreciated. And CZ says: "I'm just a regular kid [so you don't have to ask me all the time how are you feeling]." Thank you!!!!
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
I'm so sorry to hear that Lisa, I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts.
I hope things turn out for the best.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
That is very unfortunate.
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
I prayed for him and his family.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
My sympathy to your family, Lisa. About 10 years ago, my brother had an emergency brain surgery to remove a fist-sized growth that caused him to collapse with intense pain and nausea during a football game. He was the team quarterback and quite good - he was more upset about having to drop out of football than the mere fact of a large arachnoid cyst in his skull. He recovered very well and even returned to football in a competitive amateur league a couple of years ago.
I hope Chayim has a speedy recovery as well.
Posted by Sachiko (Member # 6139) on :
prayers here as well.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
G-d certainly works in mysterious ways. I'm glad they caught the tumor before it got any bigger and I'll be praying that he'll be able to recover quickly from all of this. Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
How fortunate for the car accident, in that it alerted his parents to a far more dire situation. He sounds like a trooper.
*prayers offered*
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
<prayers for Chayim>
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Thanks for the update, I'll continue to pray all goes well for him.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
I'll pray for him- it sounds like he has lots of spirit.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Thanks for the update, I had been wondering as well.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Thank heaven it was operable. My prayers will be with him.
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