
Help us fulfill Bobby’s wish with new furniture,a car & trip
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I am raising funds for my son. Some call him Bobby, Big Bob, Shannon, and on TikTok he is @Bobizzle4183, better known as Unk. He is one of the most humble and sweetest people I know. He has overcome so many obstacles. At 3 months, he was diagnosed with a blood clot on his brain that left him legally blind and with a speech impairment. He was on medication for seizures that they said he would be on for the rest of his life. My son was basically a zombie on the meds. After turning 18 months, I weaned him off the meds. He stopped having the seizures, and his mobility skills started to improve: holding his head up, rolling over, crawling, sitting, and moving in his walker. He went to a special school where they helped him develop his speech better along with other things. He later was placed in regular school in a class where they only taught him living skills. In high school, he told his teacher he wanted to take Drivers Ed. Her reply to him was, 'People like you don’t drive.' I told him, 'The devil is a lie; you can do anything you pray and ask God for and believe it.' After graduation, he tried for his permit, and after several attempts, he didn’t pass. At age 19, he successfully passed, and at age 21, the doctor approved his vision to be satisfactory to take the driving test. On the 3rd attempt, he got it. I bought him a car; he was a good driver and really responsible. At age 23, he was diagnosed with a mass/tumor in his adenoids and sinuses. They said they would have to do a biopsy to see if it was cancer. Thank God it was not, but it had to be removed. We were told that the surgery could not be done in our city. We were referred to MUSC in Charleston, which was 4 hours from where we live. We made several trips there. There was a team of about 20 people, including a neurologist, ear, nose, and throat specialist, a sinus scientist, and others that had to come up with a plan to remove the mass. We were told it was in a place that was complicated to remove and had started to grow a little under the frontal cavity of his brain. The plan given to us was to cut him from ear to ear across his head, remove his forehead bone, remove the mass, remove his sinuses, which meant he would not be able to smell again, and do reconstructive surgery and put a titanium plate in for his forehead bone. We agreed to it. He underwent about an 8 to 9-hour surgery. It was successful. We were there for about 2 weeks, came home, went back to get staples out, and had several follow-up appointments. He has been doing fine; he can’t smell and has limited eyesight in one eye, but he still keeps going. Years later, Bobby said to me, 'Mom, I want to get my own place.' I was scared; the thought of him moving out on his own just frightened me. I knew I had to let him go. I knew I had raised him to not let his disabilities get in the way of anything he wanted to do. He could drive, he could clean, iron, wash clothes, cut grass, read, and write. He moved into an apartment where he lived for 11 years; he had a car too. He moved out of the apartment because they refused to do any upgrades to it. There were problems with plumbing, heating and air, countertops, and cabinets needed upgrading. His last car recently tore up and isn’t worth fixing. God is so good; he just got another apartment, and it’s so nice. It is his wish to get new furniture throughout his apartment and get a used good car and go to Nashville, Tennessee, for his birthday in October. He loves country music, and his following on TikTok is over 100k followers. Please help make his dream come true.
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Darlene Bobo
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Spartanburg, SC