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Inside Children's
August 3, 2010 was a life changing day for our family. With the help of Dr. John Stewart, Akron General Medical Center and Akron Children’s Hospital, my husband and I welcomed quintuplets into the world. Within two minutes we went from a family of four to a family of nine!
Bekah had a routine cardiology appointment a little over a month ago. For the last month I’ve been debating what to write about it and how I feel about what we learned there.
My son, Axl Gallagher, was born with hydrocephalas (fluid on the brain). We got the news when he was 4 weeks old after he rolled off the couch.
I was 2-years-old and became very ill. I was first taken to Columbus where the doctors there had no idea what was going on with me. I was very weak and could not keep anything down. It got to the point I didn’t want to eat. Finally my parents decided to take me out of there and straight to Akron, where wonderful doctors got together and found the problem.
We’ve had some small steps for our little man over the past few months. During our physical therapy visit on Jan. 26 Jordan took his first steps while using his walker all by his big boy self.
They say that when you have a child life begins. It is hard to believe that when you aren’t a parent. Life began for us 3 ½ years ago in July 2009.
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