Miracle Boy Celebrates Milestone Birthday After Doctors Told His Family He Wouldn't Live Past 12

With the season of death, life and miracles upon us, it’s fitting to hear stories of people defying death in the form of disheartening medical prognoses and experiencing the ✨Miracle that life truly is.

Dylan Young was born with a rare condition that made itself known at age six months. When he was just half a year old, he had his first seizure.

Just a few years later, when he was in kindergarten, the boy was experiencing up to 200 seizures a day. His 👨‍👩‍👧Family was finally given a diagnosis: Hemimegalencephaly, a condition in which one side of the brain is malformed.

But that was only the first step. Young Dylan was barely able to function on any level due to the constant seizures. His father Bryan told WZTV that he was barely surviving, and certainly not thriving.

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The only real solution was to remove part of the boy’s brain — a terrible decision for any parent to face, but it ended up being the right one for Dylan, who doctors said would probably not make it past his 12th birthday.