Meet Rhett Lamb, the 3 year-old boy who couldn’t sleep. He is awake almost 24 hours a day which makes him irritable during the day.
Rhett is suffering from an extremely rare condition called Chiari Malformation. This condition squeezes the brain into the spinal column which result to strangulating of the brain stem which controls our body’s sleep, speech, cranial nerves, circulatory system, and the breathing system.
In order to relieve the pressure on Rhett’s brain stem, doctors performed surgery this week that they hope will allow him to sleep properly for the first time in his life. Surgeons made an incision at the base of Rhett’s skull to the top of his neck and removed the bone around the brain stem and spinal cord, which produced more space.
Update: After undergoing surgery to remove at the base of his skull, Rhett Lamb can now sleep like normal child do. Here’s a video from Yahoo.
