Clayton's Miracles

  • 1. Life after a terminal cancer diagnosis as an infant
  • 2. Learning to walk after being paralyzed as an infant
  • 3. Having his son, Max after being told that he was infertile due to the cancer & its treatment.
  • 4. Making the adoption connection with Violet to give his parents a second grandchild.
  • 5. Waking up from a coma and diagnosis of persistent vegetative state.
  • 6. Retention of cognitive abilities despite testing that indicated only his brain stem was functioning.
  • Future # 7. Learning to walk and talk again.
  • Future #8. Being Max's hero and raising him into adulthood.

Under Construction

Please bear with us as we add and elaborate on the details of Clayton's story.  Read the most recent dates and then skip down to the first posts. 

Sunday

Can this really be good-bye?

The doctors' news was bleak.  Clayton had been put into a medicated coma to give his brain much needed rest.  His body was jerking and convulsing from a confused nervous system and seizure activity.  The fear and worry was palpable as you entered the room.  No one wanted to say what we were all thinking, Clayton probably wouldn't recover from this one.  We had been through so many crises with him that we always expect the guy who was "tough as nails" to pull through.  How could this be happening?

We decided that family needed to be notified.  Our large family trickled into the chapel, a few at a time.  Grandmom closed the flower shop to head to the hospital.  We all prayed together and cried together.  Could this really be good-bye?  Will we ever see those big, dark brown eyes open, again.  We all prayed for a miracle, for hope, for strength and for guidance.  Little did we know that as hard as those moments were, it would get worse.
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