ROBERTS — On July 19, parents JayC and Kaylene Hedbon came face to face with the unimaginable when their 12-year old son, Caellum, started exhibiting symptoms typically associated with a stroke.

After a night spent vomiting, Caellum had feeling lost on his right side and was unable to talk. The Hebdons took him to the emergency room and after a CT scan, doctors found a large tumor in his brain that was bleeding.

“We were in shock, to say the least. Caellum has always been perfectly healthy. Now we didn’t know if he’d survive the night,” said the Hebdons in an update posted to their Crowdfunder page.

Caellum was taken by air ambulance to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, where surgeons performed life-saving surgery, removing a “tangerine sized” tumor and stopping the bleedin

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