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I
A
healing spirit
Less
than an hour earlier, Andrew Bateson had been running outdoors with his
sister and cousins. He was now shivering in bed with a temperature of
102. That's how quickly it started.
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II
'He's not going to die,' his mother asked, "is
he?'
Dr.
Monica Kleinman called her staff..."This youngster is going to be quite
unstable," she said "He's going to need a lot of intervention
quickly." She could almost hear everyone take a breath when she mentioned
meningococcemia. |
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III
A
community hopes and prays at a little boy's bedside
The
Rev. Joe Escobar didn't want to alarm Scott and Rebecca Bateson, but he
felt he should ask. "I think it would be good if we prayed." |
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IV
Facing
loss, Andrew's family learns about gratitude
Rebecca
Bateson stood outside the room where the bonescan was to take place. She
watched as they positioned her son, Andrew, under the gamma camera. Scott
was beside Andrew, helping. The procedure would determine whether Andrew's
legs could be saved. |
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V
Starting on his way home
Casey
Little and Lori LaFrance had worked with plenty of trauma kids...but never
a patient without legs or this frail. No one in the rehabilitation department
at Hasbro Children's hospital could remember a child with such a severity
of need. |
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Part
VI
The
Comeback Kid
Rebecca
and Scott Bateson drove Andrew three blocks to the Kennedy Elementary School.
It was just after February vacation, 1998. This would be his first day back
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