A Michigan community is pooling its cash to help bring home a fourth-grader who is recovering in Florida.
Chandyn Thompson, 10, had to undergo nine hours of emergency surgery to fix a brain defect that doctors said he probably had since he was born, WZZM reported.
The 10-year-old was in Florida for spring break last week.
Doctors had to drain areas of his brain to control pressure. Doctors told his parents that Thompson had an arteriovenous malformation, WOOD reported.
"It's a miracle that he is alive. Apparently, he hasn't spoken yet, but he is responsive," Thompson's principal Robert Siegel told WZZM.
While Thompson is recovering in a Florida hospital, he could be treated closer to home, at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, but he will have to be taken by air ambulance from Florida to Michigan. That flight will cost more than $40,000
The community, teachers and classmates have set up a Go Fund Me page to raise the money to bring the boy home. In one day, the site raised more than 40 percent of the money needed.
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