Tuesday, May 5, 2009
What had happened was me and my friends were playing catch with a baseball. One of my friends lost control of the ball and it flew threw my neighbors window and knocked down her chandelier. She was pretty mad but when we explained what had happened she told us she wouldn't tell our parents. That was a relief for all of us. When we finished cleaning the mess we thanked her for not being to upset and calling our parents and we apologized and left.
I thought we were all in a cartoon that night. It was like somebody had wrote a story bout us and put us on camera. It just felt funky to me. But my neighbor lied to us she did tell our parents and we had to work for her just long enough to equally pay for the damaged we had caused. My parents were not happy with me and i think i got a total of five whippings. That's when i decided that i should have done more damage for that ha ha.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Senioritis
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Innocent
Friday, February 27, 2009
Ten Reasons I love spring semester
2. everything speeds up
3. spring break
4. get to travel more
5. get to sleep later
6. get to visit people i havent seen in a long time
7. visit family
8. family comes to the house to stay
9. the cookouts we have
10. the fun time i get to have on my dirtbike out at my grandmas
Friday, January 16, 2009
Baby Sam is Lucky
Near the end of her pregnancy, Tiffnie Esquibel started to get very big, and her obstetrician suggested inducing birth. Tiffnie decided against the procedure, but a week later went in for a routine ultrasound scan to make sure everything was still fine.
Her doctor told her there was something wrong. What appeared to be a tumor had appeared in the baby’s brain. Whether it was cancerous or not could not be determined until Sam was born, and the doctor advised inducing labor immediately. Tiffnie agreed, and after four hours of labor delivered Sam.
‘Get him baptized’
On Oct. 2, Tiffnie and her husband, Manny, got the news no parent wants to hear: Their newborn son had a large tumor in his brain. A neurosurgeon asked them if they were religious. When they told him they were Roman Catholics, he advised them to get Sam baptized immediately.
The Esquibels had waited what seemed like forever for a child, and now that they had a son, they were being told he might not survive.
TODAY Tests showed a large mass inside baby Sam Esquibel’s brain. |
Sam was transferred to the pediatric center at the Memorial Hospital for Children in Colorado Springs On Oct. 3, neurosurgeon Dr. Paul Grabb led a team that operated on Sam’s brain to remove the tumor. When he opened the tumor, a tiny, perfectly formed foot popped out.
“A lot of us who have been in practice long enough like to think we’ve seen everything,” Grabb told NBC News. “Well, we haven’t. The foot quite literally popped out of the tumor. I stopped operating, since I’m not used to seeing a foot in the brain.”
One for the books
After going back to work, Grabb removed the tumor, which was found to contain other partially formed body parts, including a thigh and a hand. The tumor would prove to be noncancerous, and monthly tests on Sam have shown that it is not growing back.
TODAY This computer graphic shows the location of the foot-shaped mass in baby Sam’s brain. |
“They just looked at us and said, ‘It’s just remarkable. It’s for the books what we found,’ ” Tiffnie Esquibel said. “We were stunned. We didn’t know what to think when they told us what they found.”
What makes them think of Sam as a miracle is that if Tiffnie had agreed to induced labor a week earlier, the final ultrasound would not have been taken and the tumor would not have been discovered.
If that had happened, it could have continued to grow, and either killed or severely damaged Sam.
Rare or rarer
Dr. Nancy Snyderman, chief medical editor for NBC News, joined the Esquibels with Lauer and said that the tumor could be one of two rare birth conditions. The first and more common is a teratoma, which is a mass that contains various incompletely formed body parts that may include hair and teeth.
“I’ve seen quite a few teratomas in my life, in the neck, in the chest, in the abdomen,” Snyderman said. “Never one in the brain.”
Courtesy Memorial Hospital for Children When doctors opened the tumor in baby Sam’s brain, a perfectly shaped foot popped out. |
Doctors who have reviewed Sam’s case tend to think the tumor was a teratoma. Snyderman said that Sam will surely become a case study in a little-understood medical phenomenon.
At present Sam tends to fix his gaze toward the right side of his head, where the tumor was. He is undergoing physical therapy for that and is improving steadily. Other than that, he shows no effects from the tumor.
Whatever medical science calls him, Sam’s parents will always see him as their miracle baby.
“He’s turned our life around,” Manny Esquibel told Lauer. “That’s for sure.”