On November 25th 2018, 16 year old Reece Holland fell from the bed of a friend's pick up. He hit the pavement, convulsed and went into a coma. Due to a snowstorm, he was unable to FLIGHT FOR LIFE to Children's Hospital. Instead, he was rush to the Racine ER to be stabilized before painstakingly ground transported to the ICU at Children's in Milwaukee Wi (CHW). Upon arrival at CHW, he underwent hours of surgeries; ICP units were placed, ultimately saving him from becoming brain dead. Two holes we drilled into his skull, one "bolt" would measure the pressure inside his skull, the other would drain blood and fluids off his brain.
For days he fought for his life, suffering dangerously high fevers, seizures & his lungs collapsed. That's when his team of doctors decided to paralyze him. By doing so they would shut him down completely, even stopping his brain synaptic connectors from firing off. Machines would do EVERYTHING for him, allowing his brain optimum healing. After 17 days in the ICU (comatose), day & night monitoring, a room full of machines, tubes & wires all hooked up to my son; the doctors made a decision. Slowly and painstakingly, they would start to ween him off the drugs that were keeping him in paralysis and the coma. This could take weeks and needed close monitoring. December 19th he finally opened his gorgeous eyes. 4 days later, the day before Christmas, he said a word - MOM!
31 days at CHW,  25 of those in ICU,  he was then transported to Shirley Ryan in Chicago IL (SRA) - his days here filled with extensive therapies, PT OT & Speech. Here he started to speak coherently and shed his wheelchair. We were finally discharged from the hospitals on Jan 23rd, 2019.
Reece's right side is now his weak side. His official diagnosis is "diffuse axonal injury" signifying his severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Vision is forever impaired, his left eye is paralyzed - paresis of the medial rectus. he suffers damage to his vestibular system. He is impulsive and lacks awareness, which has resulted in 24/7 adult supervision. In April, he went back to high school but only for half days.
Since discharge our days are filled with therapies in home and at the hospitals. We now need to start the Neuro Ophthalmology portion of therapy, which our insurance will not cover. Just to start we are looking at $5000. We are reaching our hard max on the other therapies as well. And we haven't even begun the treatments for the anger and personality changes.  
I don't know what else to say, this is our story. Reece is a miracle by God's grace. Please find it in your hearts to donate to Reece's future.