
Gunners surgery expenses
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Our son Gunner is 5 months old and was born with a odd bulgeing eye we got it looked at as soon as we could but was told Noone would see him until he was 6 months old so I requested we do a MRI and make sure nothing was behind the eye like a tumor, got an MRI done with Springfield mo which was a terrible experience. Then went to a pediatric eye specialist and was told our baby couldn't see out of either of his eyes so was sent to another specialist in st.louis was finally given some good news, that he could see out of his right eye just not his left eye. She said but I wanna see if I can do an eye muscle surgery but I need a new MRI as Springfield didn't do a good job at getting a clear MRI. So we came back to st.louis for a new MRI on Wednesday and went to the specialist to talk about results and she told me I'm sorry but you were correct Gunner has a mass behind his eye causing all his problems so we stayed in town to see the surgeon before we left. When we got in a room he said Gunner is very weird we have no idea what we are dealing with. He first told us that he thought it was a hemangioma and he said maybe some eye injections to see if it will shrink, then he stepped out and called another Dr and came back and said scratch that we aren't sure what to do but we do know it's not operable without removing the whole eye as the mass is in all the major parts of the eye and it would no longer function. He said me and another Dr will go in and explore and attempt to take out a piece for a biopsy it but it's a very tight squeeze and there are some risk factors because of where it is and how tight the eye space is risk of bleeding and loss of vision completely. With this being said we have no idea what's going to happen and we weren't expecting anything bad like this to happen as we just came up for a MRI and had already checked out of our hotel and now we are up here for an unknown time period. Also our daughter had come with us as once again we weren't expecting anything like this to happen and she doesn't understand. If you can please help we appreciate anything you can do and please pray.
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Hailey Elliott
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Marionville, MO