A Good News Story

[Miss Chicken]

which I am posting because it cheered me up.

EATING solids for the first time is a milestone most parents take for granted.
But when seven-year-old Bryce Seabourne started eating Weet-Bix, yoghurt and soup after a life of being fed by tube, it was a moment of great celebration for his mother Amanda.
The Gagebrook youngster was born with multiple holes in his heart and narrowing of a main artery, and required major surgery at just five days old.
After the operation, Bryce had a cardiac arrest and spent three weeks on a heart-lung machine.
His condition was further complicated by damage to his trachea and he spent the first 22 months of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit of the Royal Hobart Hospital.
Now Bryce is in grade one at Brighton Primary School and it seems a desire to be part of the lunchtime ritual with his classmates was the impetus he needed to try to eat on his own in the past few weeks.

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"But already he is eating Weet-Bix for breakfast, custards and yoghurt for lunch and soup and mashed vegies and meat. Pumpkin soup is his favourite."

Rest of story here

The little guy still has a tube because he cannot yet eat enough to maintain his health. I cannot even begin to imagine what it is like to go seven years without being able to eat. I love to eat.

 

[RJDiogenes]

He was in the NICU until he was almost two years old, and hasn't been able to eat for the first seven years of his life; I wonder what long-term effects this will have on his development, although he seems to be doing all right. It's kind of funny that he never had the urge to eat solid foods before now. You'd think the smell of food would have been enticing enough, unless his sense of taste or smell is undeveloped.

Good luck to him, though. It's fantastic that they were able to save his life with such a serious heart defect.

 

[Deckerd]

Weet-Bix is just wrong. It's Weetabix