Our son Mason is only 7 years old, and he is fighting a battle no child should ever have to face.

Since October 2023, he has been suffering from severe, intractable epilepsy. The seizures come often, and they come hard. We have tried everything the doctors have asked—multiple medications, hospital stays, and even VNS surgery—but nothing has stopped them.

He is still having seizures, even during hospital admissions.

Mason is also nonverbal autistic. He doesn’t understand why this is happening to him. He can’t tell us what he feels or what hurts. All we can do is hold him, watch, and pray as his body goes through something he doesn’t understand.

In the past two years, he has gone into respiratory failure four times. Two of those were in just the last two months. Some of those moments were so critical that he had to be life flighted for emergency care.

We have been told there are no more options left for him here.

But we are not ready to give up on our child.

Mason also has a 5-year-old sibling at home who loves him deeply and needs their big brother. Our family is doing everything we can to stay strong for both of our children while navigating the constant hospital stays and fear that comes with Mason’s condition.

We want to take his case to Boston Children’s Hospital to get a second opinion—one last hope that someone, somewhere, might see something others haven’t.

The cost just to start is around $900 for a consultation, and that’s before any travel or further care. My husband—Mason’s dad—is our only source of income, and he has already missed work to stay by Mason’s side through these hospital stays and seizures.

We are doing everything we can, but we can’t do this alone.

We are asking for help—for a chance, for hope, for our son’s life.

If you can donate, share, or even just say a prayer for Mason, it means more than words could ever express.

We just want to save our son.