Deep inside 10-year-old Caleb’s brain, an insidious brain tumor grew and grew, pressing down on his brain stem and causing fluid to build inside the brain’s cavities, until Caleb could no longer walk, run or play. From dawn to dusk, Caleb sat in the corner of his family’s Haitian home, plagued by constant headaches and [Continue Reading]

Sun Ko doesn’t remember the horrible car crash, the urgent rush to the hospital aboard a Memorial Hermann Life Flight® helicopter, or the emergency surgery to stop the swelling in her brain that would’ve killed her. But UTHealth neurosurgeon Dr. Ryan Kitagawa remembers her. It was late on Thanksgiving night in 2013 when Ko was [Continue Reading]

Without music, life was meaningless for Daniel Stover. “Music is my artistic outlet. I can’t draw. I can’t act. I can’t sing,” says Stover. “Playing an instrument allows me to express my passion for life.” When a severe hemorrhagic stroke due to a brain tumor left Stover unable to use his left hand, he thought [Continue Reading]

While visiting her grandparents in Horatio, Arkansas, to celebrate Thanksgiving, Madison, then 13, was driving her 3-year-old cousin around a pasture on the family’s ATV while her mom Mandy was inside preparing dishes for the upcoming holiday dinner when the unexpected happened. “For some reason Madison decided to cross the road and they were hit [Continue Reading]

Mom-to-be Sara Roberts received some alarming news roughly 20 weeks into her pregnancy. Florida residents, she and her husband Dillon were at a routine ultrasound appointment when the doctor pointed out an abnormality. At a follow-up appointment with her specialist,  they learned their unborn baby, Ellis, had a broncho-pulmonary sequestration (BPS) which was causing his [Continue Reading]