Hello Jim,

 

I want to tell you about my son Seth. I consider Seth to be a miracle child.

 

Seth was born in 1990 with an abdominal wall defect called gastroschisis. He lost the majority of his small bowel to gangrene at birth. He lost all of his ileum due to this defect. I was told to prepare for the worse. He spent the first 2 months of his life in a hospital.

 

In 1993, Seth had the Bianchi procedure or also referred to as bowel lengthening.  This surgery gave Seth less than 2 feet of small bowel. Six months later, he was able to discontinue any and all nutritional feedings and sustain life by oral feedings.

 

Today, Seth is a normal and healthy young child who excels at many things. He often achieves the honor roll at his school. He is active in his church, where he often cantors for the school Masses. He and his classmate, Sara, won 1st place at the school's science fair and went on to place 4th in the city/county science fair. Seth was nominated for the Junior National Young Leaders Conference Congressional Youth Leadership Conference held in Washington, D.C.

 

I have written two WebPages about Seth.

 

http://expage.com/sethsstory.com  is Seth's Story that contains quite a bit of medical information.

 

 

www.sethsstory.homestead.com   is Seth's Story as well. I am constantly updating this page. This page contains pictures as well.

 

I hope you do not mind, but here are two pictures of Seth.