{"id":99188,"date":"2016-08-16T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=99188"},"modified":"2016-08-19T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T19:15:49","slug":"doctors-said-jaxon-wouldnt-survive-now-hes-turning-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctors-said-jaxon-wouldnt-survive-now-hes-turning-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors said Jaxon wouldn’t survive, now he’s turning two"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been two years since Brittany and Brandon Buell were told that their preborn son, Jaxon<\/a>, would not live and that they should consider aborting him.<\/p>\n

Jaxon had a then undiagnosed condition, but doctors were concerned about the size and shape of his head. However, his parents refused to abort him\u00a0and\u00a0did not\u00a0give up on their son.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was irritated,\u201d says Brittany Buell. \u201cIt made me mad because they were so quick to offer [termination] without even knowing for sure what his diagnosis was. They gave up. We ran all the tests we could. We were 23 weeks along at that point and they told us we had one week left in Florida to terminate.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Jaxon was born, doctors asked the Buells to sign a Do Not Resuscitate form, but the couple refused. They were determined to help their son,\u00a0and for the next two\u00a0years, they watched him prove countless doctors wrong. At first, Jaxon was diagnosed with lissencephaly, a rare neurological disorder in which the brain doesn\u2019t have the shapes, folds, and curves that it should. But Jaxon’s symptoms didn’t truly fit that condition.<\/p>\n