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When Sams mom Debbie started getting bigger she went for a check up and got told that the baby's brain was floating outside of his head.
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Sam Lightner was born premature, with a rare life-threatening facial disfigurement
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just a few days after sam was born he got operated on, removing one pound, ten ounces of tissue under Sam's neck.
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Sam got operated on a second time, putting a hole in Sams throat and removing some of the bulk above his ear. After being operated on twice Sam had lost a quarter of his weight.
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The day after christmas Sam was released from the hospital and went home for the first time.
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After being in a coma for weeks Sams head has grown larger then it has ever been. sam was in something called the lock in syndrome; main remain consciousness and intelligent thought but be paralyzed expect for eye movement.
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The boys family finally found someone that would operate on Sam to try and remove the mass on his face. Mullike started at a spot near Sam's left ear. After fifreen minutes he had to opened a three-inch incision and the blood flowed, which made his close to death so they had to close the operaion.
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Sam had lost seventeen pounds since early august; he know weights sicty-three. He couldn't speak, he was listless and didn't move from his bed.
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Sam started felling dizzy and went to the hospital to get checked out. The doctors discovered excess fluid around his brain.
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Sam went to his first day of school in 2004 even though he wasn't feeling all that good.
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Sam started staying home from school, he felt sick, very dizzy and couldn't get out of his bed.
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The first letters started arriving at the hospital the day turned 15. All the letters were touching and the Lightners were thankful.
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Sam got operated on to drain the spinal fluid. The doctor hooked up the shunt and the fluid began to flow, letting the brain adjust to the drainage.
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After being in a coma for weeks Sams head has grown larger then it has ever been. sam was in something called the lock in syndrome; main remain consciousness and intelligent thought but be paralyzed expect for eye movement.
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Sam started responding to peoples commands after 3 months, and after 133 days in the hospital, must of it in a coma, he was aloud to go home.
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Sam, now a fresh man will register at Grant High School, and on Septemeber 2ed he would attend the first day.
