A four-hour MRI confirmed the diagnosis. "We could see the whole spinal cord, and the brain stem through the end was inflamed," his mother says. "It was impacting all of the nerves through...
This was very encouraging — it meant he still had the ability to move. Over the next few months, Kellen worked tirelessly with his occupational, physical and speech therapists to re-learn how to walk,...
This time, he decided that when he left he wanted to be able to actually walk to the car. While he had mostly been using crutches, on the day he was discharged, "he walked five or six steps withou...
He swam a 50-meter butterfly in a medley and a 100-meter backstroke. "That was new for me," he says. “I'm doing good, it's pretty much back to normal, better than I would've expec...