In a story that will stretch and strain every heartstring, an East Coast infant is set to undergo a complex brain surgery that will disconnect the left side of his brain from his right side.

This “hemispherotomy” was going to bring financial ruin upon parents Brad and Alyssa Casacci, whose son Cameron was born with a litany of health issues that eventually landed them in the position of needing to basically abandon their son’s left brain half to save the right.

It was going to bring financial ruin because Independent Health, the primary insurer of the Casaccis denied coverage for the surgery.

The story began in September 2024, when Cameron suffered from a blood clot and stroke after exhibiting seizure-like symptoms at just one day old. At Oishei Children’s Hospital in the Buffalo area,

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