Charles is an adorable 8 year old boy who has experienced more in life than most adults will ever have to. At just eight years old Charles is getting ready to face his fifth brain surgery. Charles has multiple conditions of the brain including Chiari malformation, hydrocephalus, syringohydromyelia among multiple other diagnosis’. As a result of these illnesses Charles suffers from epilepsy, neuropathy and is feeding tube dependent.

Charles lives with his mom and dad and his little sister Paislee. As many know when someone in the household is sick even with just a flu it has a financial and emotional impact. I think of these wonderful parents and how strong they are to put on a brave face every day, not knowing how Charles is going to feel that day and now the anxiety grows as he is preparing for his soon to be 5th surgery.

Charles’ family has been impacted in just about every way you can imagine. The fear, heartbreak, and sadness of a sick child, the feeling of helplessness because you can’t fix the boo boo. Watching and waiting and praying for your child to come through surgery safely. Financially they miss time from work for doctor’s appointments, time by Charles’ side when he’s in the hospital and testing.

We have come together in past years to help this very deserving family with Christmas, let’s do it again so that mom and dad can focus on what is most important. Mom and dad know we are doing this and due to some technical difficulties and illness among our OCSN team we are a little late so time is crucial. We got information about Charles and Paislee and what they like etc and to hopefully 🙏🏻 expedite everything we created a wish list. You can ship item to recipient, I have my address and our elves will wrap as they come so they can be delivered to mom and dad on December 23rd. If there’s an issue with last minute things coming on the 24th just message OCSN and I will make a secondary run on the 24th. Because moms and dads always get forgotten about, and we know they don’t mind as long as the kids are smiling, we put just a few basic things on for mom and dad. If you feel the kind gesture to include something for them, it would be appreciated. This is the link https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/CDBMH4III7EZ?ref_=wl_share

We will share photos of all the great gifts that will be bringing smiles to the faces of this family. Merry Christmas and thank you.

***UPDATE***. We just found out that sadly this family has lost their home due to the financial stresses and are living in a hotel. We just added some food gift cards to their wish list. Thank you everyone for all that you are doing.

Here’s a link to an older story we did when he turned 7.
https://ocscanner.news/2021/01/23/happy-birthday-charles/