Boy Without a Cerebellum Baffles Doctors

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Boy Without a Cerebellum Baffles Doctors
Heather and David Britton want everyone to understand a few things about their giggling, bespectacled 3-year-old son, Chase.
“He’s happy. We call him the Little Gremlin. He loves to play tricks on people. He loves to sing. His goal in life is to make people smile,” Heather Britton told AOL News.
“He’s got so much love around him. We’re an extremely happy family. His story is not tragic.”
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Chase was also born prematurely, and he was legally blind. When he was 1 year old, doctors did an MRI, expecting to find he had a mild case of cerebral palsy. Instead, they discovered he was completely missing his cerebellum – the part of the brain that controls motor skills, balance and emotions.
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“That’s when the doctor called and didn’t know what to say to us,” Britton said in a telephone interview. “No one had ever seen it before. And then we’d go to the neurologists and they’d say, ‘That’s impossible.’ ‘He has the MRI of a vegetable,’ one of the doctors said to us.”
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Chase is not a vegetable, leaving doctors bewildered and experts rethinking what they thought they knew about the human brain.
“There are some very bright, specialized people across the country and in Europe that have put their minds to this dilemma and are continuing to do so, and we haven’t come up with an answer,” Dr. Adre du Plessis, chief of Fetal and Transitional Medicine at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., told Fox News affiliate WGRZ.
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“So it is a mystery.”
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Here’s a link to a video bcove.me/z8h3m3e3
 
Shows us…just when we think we “know it all…”

With God all things are possible.

God is good, all the time.
All the time, God is good!

God Bless you.
+Jesus, I Trust In You!
Love, Dawn
 
That is amazing. I wonder what sort of conclusions doctors will draw because of this.

Praise God that the child is able to live a happy life.

I hope that he isn’t subjected to too many tests and such.
 
Even in times when a child is born without one and IS a vegetable leaving his parents to mourn? God is good but not always, imo he is selective and has favorites for some unknown mystery 🤷
 
my best friend is raising a foster child who received the same diagnosis 18 years ago. he was placed in a home for “hopelessly” challenged children, and released to them at age 2 under an experimental program to see how such “hopeless” children fared in a regular home and family (there were 4 older brothers). From being unable to walk, communicate or even eat properly he has progressed to the extent that he holds down two part time jobs, rides horses, plays basketball, cleans house, and is a joy to all who know him. He received first communion and confirmation because while he was still non-verbal in middle school (he know talks with the vocabulary of a 10 year old) he was able to communicate very clearly his love for Jesus and desire for the sacrament. If you had been attending mass with this family you would agree.

they have never adopted him because his birth parents never released him, but also all state funding for his medical care would cease, and on the dad’s salary as a janitor they could not have afforded the millions of dollars of surgeries, therapies and so forth he has needed. His older brothers will become his legal guardians should the parents die, and are fully qualified by the state to care for him, as are his sisters-in-law. That is the degree of love this family has for this child.

There is no way to express the joy this child has brought to everyone who knows him. Our parish considers him our own special saint.
 
CathModerate said:
Even in times when a child is born without one and IS a vegetable leaving his parents to mourn? God is good but not always, imo he is selective and has favorites for some unknown mystery 🤷
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God is good. Always. God is love, how can He be anything but good all the time?

We humans just have to trust that not only is He good, but He can also bring good out of our fallen world. There is so much merit in suffering, perhaps the families of these children have a special vocation to suffering that will have great benefit somehow.
 
CathModerate said:
Even in times when a child is born without one and IS a vegetable leaving his parents to mourn? God is good but not always, imo he is selective and has favorites for some unknown mystery 🤷
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He is every bit “in the image and likeness of God” as you and me.

You do not realize-God sends each of us with a job to do in the world. Many of these children-are their parents’ Salvation.

This is a test-here on earth. Our earthly Journey. None of us are made for this world, we have a better one-an eternity-waiting for us, where there will be no more pain and sorrow.

Are only those who are perfect (who is that?) made from God’s Goodness? Oh no! Each has a part to play in the Salvation of the world.

When we leave this world-and go to our own Particular Judgment (immediately)-we will see everything we have said, done, and neglected ~through the Eyes of God~, and all those whom we affected-and how.

Good and Bad.

Make sure that scale leans the right way.

God Bless you.
+Jesus, I Trust In You!
Love, Dawn
 
hilaretenebris said:
God is good. Always. God is love, how can He be anything but good all the time?

We humans just have to trust that not only is He good, but He can also bring good out of our fallen world. There is so much merit in suffering, perhaps the families of these children have a special vocation to suffering that will have great benefit somehow.
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IMO, he allows too much suffering and not enough good. You have your viewpoints I have mine
 
CathModerate said:
IMO, he allows too much suffering and not enough good. You have your viewpoints I have mine
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And He has His.

And it’s the right one.

Regarding God not allowing enough Good, God works through His disciples.
 
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