Image: Janice Kraser, Billy Kraser
Janice Kraser sits next to her 9-year-old son, Billy Kraser, at their Scranton, Pa., home Sunday, Nov. 9. Billy has spina bifida and has undergone an experimental surgery which reroutes his nerves in attempt to attain normal bladder and bowel function.
There is an amazing new surgery that possibly could change our lives with Ben. This is really new and I am still researching it but I was so overcome with emotion that I couldn't finish reading it out loud. Here is the some of the amazing article that fills my heart with hope:
WASHINGTON - It’s a delicate and daring experiment: Could doctors switch a leg nerve to make it operate the bladder instead?
Families of a few U.S. children whose spina bifida robs them of the bladder control that most people take for granted dared to try the procedure — and early results suggest the surgery indeed may help, in at least some patients.
With the technique, pioneered in China, the kids are supposed to scratch or pinch their thigh to signal the bladder to empty every few hours. But surprisingly, some youngsters instead are starting to feel those need-to-go sensations that their birth defect had always prevented.
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