{"id":1157,"date":"2013-05-21T19:26:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/west-vancouver-stroke-survivor-a-champion-for-the-cause\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:58","slug":"west-vancouver-stroke-survivor-a-champion-for-the-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/west-vancouver-stroke-survivor-a-champion-for-the-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"West Vancouver stroke survivor a champion for the cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-link field-field-link-original-article\">THOMAS Dignum is among the Lower Mainland residents going to bat for the B.C. Children&#8217;s Hospital Foundation next weekend at a fundraising slo-pitch tournament.<\/div>\n<p>The 12-year-old West Vancouver resident and Grade 6 student at Ridgeview elementary is not only going to have an opportunity to hit the field, the three-day event is giving him and his family an opportunity to share their story as Thomas is the event&#8217;s Champion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He really is the ideal miracle story,&#8221; says Thomas&#8217; mother Tracy. At age six, Thomas, out of nowhere, collapsed at school. Doctors discovered he had suffered a massive stroke in his brain stem. He subsequently underwent a life-saving procedure at B.C. Children&#8217;s Hospital that had never been done before on a child at the hospital and was administered a clot-busting drug. His road to recovery was slow, seeing him spend several months in rehabilitation at Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, however six years later, he&#8217;s made a complete recovery in terms of his cognitive and\u00a0physical abilities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsnews.com\/health\/West+Vancouver+stroke+survivor+champion+cause\/8406838\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOMAS Dignum is among the Lower Mainland residents going to bat for the B.C. Children&#8217;s Hospital Foundation next weekend at a fundraising slo-pitch tournament. The 12-year-old West Vancouver resident and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}