{"id":2419,"date":"2012-12-30T00:16:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:45:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:45:44","slug":"hugh-hannemann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/hugh-hannemann\/","title":{"rendered":"RCH medical team give Hugh his life back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hugh Hannemann back in Queensland with his parents Sally and Mick. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A\u00a0multidisciplinary\u00a0team at The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) has given three-year-old Hugh Hannemann a second chance at life and granted his mum Sally her ultimate wish – a hug from her son.<\/p>\n

Hugh was diagnosed at birth with neuronal migration disorder.\u00a0Until six months ago, his little body was battling 20 seizures a day.\u00a0He could not walk, talk, feed himself or even recognise his parents. Everything he would learn would be forgotten the next day.<\/p>\n

A specialist team of RCH neurologists, neurosurgeons and technologists planned the surgery that would change the Queensland toddler’s life. The team\u00a0used a new hi-tech magnetic resonance imaging scanner that allowed them to zoom in closer than ever on Hugh’s brain.<\/p>\n

The technology enabled his medical team to salvage parts of his brain that otherwise would have been removed.<\/p>\n

RCH neurologist Dr Simon Harvey said while two-thirds of Hugh’s right side of the brain looked malformed, there were tissues of it that were still functioning normally.\u00a0“His brain is like a handmade garment, the operation was specially tailored to him,” Dr Harvey said.<\/p>\n

Hugh’s mum Sally Hannemann said she thought the operation would stop his seizures but never imagined her “little hero” would be living a normal life so soon.<\/p>\n

Just a few months after surgery “he looked at me and said, ‘Mum’,” Mrs Hannemann said through tears. “It was just the best – I’ve been waiting three years for that. I didn’t know if he knew who we were.”<\/p>\n

“They saved his life.”<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the full story on Hugh on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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