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Tanner was diagnosed with a vien of galen aneurysum in utero at 32 weeks and 3 days. when he was born at 38 weeks and 4 days to childrens hospital on 12/16/15. they found that he had heart failure and hydrocephalus as well! childerns hospital couldnt help Tanner was to severe form them. So his parent had him life flighted to UCLA! where he remained in the nicu till he was 2 months went home with his parents on several meds but his heart kept failing, the only fix was to do a brain surgery to coil part of his aneurysm off to relieve some of the flow off his heart.. he came home a week later but became fluid over loaded and was placed back in the picu where he had died but was resuscitated and put on a ventulater where he spent anout month recovering. we later found he suffered a stroke due to brain swelling ! when Tanner was 4 1/2 months old he start physical therapy, occupational therapy, Child Development therapy, 4 days a week! by the time Tanner turned 1 he had to have another brain surgery to relieve more pressure from the aneurysum, while in that surgery they found a second aneurysum behind his right eye that they had to close off. becuase there was alot closed off in one procedure he developed seizures do to brain swelling, which set him back developmentally. tanner started to crawl at 11 months and started to walk with a walker at age 2 1/2. At the age of 3 tanner graduated from the regional center. And was excepted in to special need preschool threw the school district in his home town! At the age of 3 1/2 tanner suffered a brain bleed, he was placed in the hopital for a week and came home on june,24 2019 on a med that the insurance wouldnt cover that ran $426.00 a week with multi daily/weekly trips from santa clarita to cedar sinai los angeles to check tanner blood levels to make sure the medication is working.
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Kelli Martin
Organizer
Santa Clarita, CA