Young Boy In Minimally Conscious State

[snopes]

Hello, my name is Amy Stockton. I am from Cortland, Ohio. I am writing
in hopes that eventually this email will fall into the right hands.

My son, Kaleb Owens whom is 10 years old, was tragically run over in
October of 2005. He was attending a Sunday School party when he fell off
of a hayride and his head was run over by the tire. He was in a coma for
three months woke up to a minimally conscious state. He has been this way
ever since. Over the course of the past seventeen months, I have been
doing a lot of research on the minimally conscious state and ways to raise
consciousness. I came across 'DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION'. This is a study
being done and has been done on individuals with altered levels of
consciousness. I got in contact with Dr. Nicholas D. Schiff in New York,
he performed this procedure with success. Sadly, at the facility that he
does his research in, they have strict guidelines on their clinical
trials. Kaleb can not be part of the study their because of his age.
These are only the guidelines at Cornell or Weill University. These are
not the clinical guidelines everywhere.

I am searching for a facility, hospital, university, etc. that have
different guidelines than that of Weill. I believe that children should
not be excluded from this research. We have thousands of children in the
US that lay in these different states of consciousness. Some are there
because of shaking, accidents, drownings and many other reasons. Our
children are the future. We set the standards for them. By having
children as part of this study, we can be giving them years back. Years
that they may have lived in a dark, lonely place. Only aware at times
when even then they could not express how to get out of that head that
they are trapped in.

My Goal is to pass this across the country. Hoping that maybe this simple
email will fall into the hands of a neurosurgeon that is working on this
study and is not limited by age.

After forwarding this to as many people as you can, you will not have this
great miracle happen in as many minutes as the number of people you sent
this to. I will tell you what you will do, by forwarding this, you will
pass on a mother's desperation to have her son's quality of life just a
little bit better. You may have a part in making Kaleb a part of study
that could help him wake up, it could save his life. Only you have the
power to hit 'forward'.

Thank you.
Amy Stockton
407 Orchard Lane
Cortland, Ohio 44410
amybethca@aol.com email me with any information.

I sent this to everyone in address book, I apologize if you received this
twice.

Appears to be true. Otherwise somebody went through a lot of trouble.

[snoozn]

I got an error on the website Prometheus linked. It may be true, but wouldn't this woman be better off sending mail (snail or email) to neurosurgeons instead of spamming it out randomly? I'm sure there must be lots of resources on-line and elsewhere that could put someone in contact with the folks working on this medical condition.

snoozn

[Salamander]

Originally Posted by snoozn

I got an error on the website Prometheus linked. It may be true, but wouldn't this woman be better off sending mail (snail or email) to neurosurgeons instead of spamming it out randomly? I'm sure there must be lots of resources on-line and elsewhere that could put someone in contact with the folks working on this medical condition.

snoozn

I may be tarred and feathered for this 'un... but if she tried contacting the neurosurgeons directly or at least the sorts of medical institutions where they might work she wouldn't get the overwhelming sympathy flowing from hundreds, if not thousands, of do-gooders across the world.

Of course it cuts both ways, she'll also be subject to the abusers, the flamers and the tin-foil hatters as well.

There are, methinks, better ways of achieving her goal which don't appear to be a grab for her 15 minutes of fame.

(Although I do accept that her reasoning may be genuine and that she's done this either out of naivety or desperation but I have to wonder how much effort she put into this... a mere 5 minutes of using my rather weak Google-fu came up with a list of people/places I'd be trying to contact directly rather than flinging out an e-mail and hoping for random chance to swing in my benefit)

Originally Posted by snoozn

I got an error on the website Prometheus linked. It may be true, but wouldn't this woman be better off sending mail (snail or email) to neurosurgeons instead of spamming it out randomly? I'm sure there must be lots of resources on-line and elsewhere that could put someone in contact with the folks working on this medical condition.

snoozn

Sorry. I tested it, and it worked for me when I posted, but not now.

Go here and type "kalebowens" as the site name. Or try www.caringbridge.org/visit/kalebowens