'Miracle Baby' Born Without Most of His Brain Defying Odds | ABC News

Doctors didn't think Jaxon Buell would live past a few days. Now he's 1 year old as his parents share their story.
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[itriyum]

He is alive but he isnt at the same time, this is kinda sad. Blind, deaf, cant feel a thing not even pain, he cant learn...

[Klara]

Props to the doctor lady, she admitted she didn’t know rather than giving you a guess to look smarter.

[Demebeso]

This little boy passed away a few years back.. his eyes were so very beautiful.. his parents did a phenomenal job raising him up... unconditionally loved forever..

[sirarnie]

He passed away a few years ago at 5 years old. RIP.

[mikaylamichael]

This is cruel. I’m a medical student and I just learned about this condition. The child only has a brain stem which makes it only possible to live in a vegetative state and nothing beyond.

[SimoneSmith]

*2019 update*

Jaxon is now 5
Still unable to communicate in any form and is bedridden/stroller-ridden.
Parents are divorced.
Mom has a new boyfriend and also had some work done.
Jaxon is now in a care facility.
Mom and dad are being investigated for charity fraud.

Source: Facebook digging.

[kyberbricks]

He may be surviving, but ultimately he isn’t ‘living’

[alfonzo]

Im glad this little baby got so much love before his passing 😢

[Chofrizzy]

"How much of the brain is still there?"
"Um, so very little"
Amazing, thank you for your professional insight.

[mollymarie]

He passed away on April 1st 2020 and was 5 years old. So sad 😢

[PryorHendoizm]

The doctor seems pissed at the parents.

[tinetannies]

2:23 "This is Jackson today, severely disabled but thriving." Then proceeds to detail how he completely can't function, has seizures, and is basically an animated vegetable.

[tastychlorine-omjr]

To be honest, I'd rather die than live a life this painful.

[moderater.]

For anyone curious he passed away on April 1, 2020 at the age of 5. RIP bud!

[anon-wtor]

this is awful. he doesn’t even know he exists, and yet they’re saying this is some sort of ‘miracle’. my heart goes out to this poor boy.

edit: can you all stfu in my replies

[gioly]

UPDATE:
He died in North Carolina on April 1, 2020, due to complications from his condition. He was 5 years old.

[dioscorocubarrubias]

2019 Update: Parents have now divorced: the baby is dead and i think there is an investigation going on about the parents scamming 200k off of donations not actually spending them for the kid.

[alinesimon]

He's having constant seizures doesn't anyone see that

[theonlynickel]

"He's doing so well" "He's not suffering"

Meanwhile he died at the age of five, he had constant seizures, he had no capabilities of seeing, hearing, or even talking.

This is why abortions are important, to keep children like this from suffering.

[annisiahgaitan]

This child is suffering. He's not living, he's just existing. I wouldn't have done that with my son.