Caleb wasn’t even one day old when he started having seizures.
“I was getting ready to go and see him in the special care nursery,” Caleb’s mum, Beck, shares. “The nurses came in and told me that the medical emergency call I’d just heard was for Caleb.”
The decision was made to transfer Caleb to the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, where Caleb had an MRI that revealed the unthinkable.
That MRI confirmed that Caleb had experienced multiple strokes before he’d even been born.
The news was devastating. “I broke down,” Beck says. “It came as a complete shock, and I was in utter disbelief.”
Caleb and Beck spent a very long month in hospital undergoing treatment and many tests, before finally being discharged. Beck was finally able to take her beautiful boy home to settle in with the family.
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“I look back at those days and it was the scariest rollercoaster I’ve ever been on,” Beck reflects. “So many photos pop up from that time and it amazes me how far Caleb has come. He amazes me every day.”
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