{"id":728,"date":"2011-02-13T21:01:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T03:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2011-02-13T21:01:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T03:01:15","slug":"boy-without-cerebellum-forges-on-stymieing-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/boy-without-cerebellum-forges-on-stymieing-doctors.html","title":{"rendered":"Boy Without Cerebellum Forges On, Stymieing Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Chase Britton had a premature birth, and was legally blind.\u00a0When he turned one year old, doctors performed an MRI on him to confirm their suspicions: That he had cerebral palsy.<\/p>\r\n<p>Instead, physicians were rather astounded by their findings.\u00a0Chase is missing two crucial parts\u00a0of his brain, a saga that is described in a recent AOL story headlined &#8220;Boy Without A Cerebellum\u00a0Baffles Doctors.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/2011\/02\/12\/chase-britton-boy-without-a-cerebellum-baffles-doctors\/?ncid=webmail\">http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/2011\/02\/12\/chase-britton-boy-without-a-cerebellum-baffles-doctors\/?ncid=webmail<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>As it turns out, Chase not only doesn&#8217;t have a cerebellum, the portion of the brain that governs motor skills, balance\u00a0and emotion. He is also missing the pons, the part of the brain that governs\u00a0breathing and sleeping.<\/p>\r\n<p>Chase&#8217;s case has especially stymied doctors because there are ultrasound pictures of his brain when he was still\u00a0in the womb, and those pictures show that at one point he had a cerebellum, according to AOL. Yet there is no evidence that Chase suffered a brain bleed or hemorrhage that would have lead to the cerebellum&#8217;s disappearance.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Despite his abnormal brain, Chase found a way to balance and sit up on his own, and to crawl. He is onto his next step, learning to walk. He even plays with an iPad, according to AOL.<\/p>\r\n<p>Chase is now three years old,\u00a0and his parents Heather and David Britton feel blessed to have him. And doctors still haven&#8217;t figured out\u00a0how is able to do what he is doing.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chase Britton had a premature birth, and was legally blind.\u00a0When he turned one year old, doctors performed an MRI on him to confirm their suspicions: That he had cerebral palsy. Instead, physicians were rather astounded by their findings.\u00a0Chase is missing two crucial parts\u00a0of his brain, a saga that is described in a recent AOL story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[499,500],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boy-without-cerebellum","tag-chase-britton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}