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Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
11-year-old learning to walk and talk again after tonsil surgery was ‘botched'
An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy is now regaining the strength to walk and talk again after a routine tonsillitis surgery was 'botched,' landing him in a coma, his family says. Liam Klaver underwent surgery to remove his tonsils on March 17. But the routine procedure - that half a million people undergo each year - went awry, causing the child to slowly bleed and go into cardiac arrest. He's now able to speak a few words and sit up after a grueling few weeks in the hospital, his family said. 'He can say a few words, but it does hurt and [is] hard to understand,' the family wrote April 6 on their GoFundMe. 'Today he tried to take a few steps and almost fell. He really wants to come home!' He was able to pull himself up and into a wheelchair. 'Right now, he can do thumbs up, thumbs down, and give you a squeeze,' his grandmother Tanya Coye told TMJ4. When the boy returned home after surgery, he didn't seem to be healing properly — and he ended up throwing up two liters of blood, according to the GoFundMe page. Four days after his initial surgery, his family rushed him to the hospital, where doctors discovered a 'post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage in his right carotid artery.' This artery, one of two that supplies blood to the brain, was leaking, causing him to bleed to death, the parents said. He then underwent an emergency second surgery days later, in which Liam needed nine units of blood. The child then went into cardiac arrest. 'He coded on the operating table for 10 minutes before doctors were able to revive him,' the fundraiser stated, noting he was then intubated, put on paralytic medications and heavily sedated. Although initial tests showed he didn't suffer any brain damage, other issues emerged that doctors predict will take months to heal, according to the page. After a few days of weaning off of sedation and the medications, on March 31, doctors removed Liam from a ventilator. Ten days after he was first intubated, he was able to breathe on his own and he started to wake up in the hospital's pediatric intensive care unit. 'Liam the past few days is becoming more alert and has started to ask questions,' his family said. His last memory is from lacrosse practice one day before the surgery, his family said. The 11-year-old has also become cognizant of the doctors coming in and out of the hospital room, which 'was starting to scare him more' and prompted him to ask questions about why he was there. The boy cried and said he wanted to go home, but the family noted he is making great improvements each day. After just another week, Liam was already regaining the ability to talk and walk a bit. As of Wednesday morning, the GoFundMe had raised nearly $18,000. His page hopes to earn $50,000 to pay for his 'tremendous' medical bills. The family did not disclose where the boy underwent the procedure.
The Independent
09-04-2025
- Health
- The Independent
11-year-old learning to walk and talk again after tonsil surgery was ‘botched'
An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy is now regaining the strength to walk and talk again after a routine tonsillitis surgery was 'botched,' landing him in a coma, his family says. Liam Klaver underwent surgery to remove his tonsils on March 17. But the routine procedure - that half a million people undergo each year - went awry, causing the child to slowly bleed and go into cardiac arrest. He's now able to speak a few words and sit up after a grueling few weeks in the hospital, his family said. 'He can say a few words, but it does hurt and [is] hard to understand,' the family wrote April 6 on their GoFundMe. 'Today he tried to take a few steps and almost fell. He really wants to come home!' He was able to pull himself up and into a wheelchair. 'Right now, he can do thumbs up, thumbs down, and give you a squeeze,' his grandmother Tanya Coye told TMJ4. When the boy returned home after surgery, he didn't seem to be healing properly — and he ended up throwing up two liters of blood, according to the GoFundMe page. Four days after his initial surgery, his family rushed him to the hospital, where doctors discovered a 'post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage in his right carotid artery.' This artery, one of two that supplies blood to the brain, was leaking, causing him to bleed to death, the parents said. He then underwent an emergency second surgery days later, in which Liam needed nine units of blood. The child then went into cardiac arrest. 'He coded on the operating table for 10 minutes before doctors were able to revive him,' the fundraiser stated, noting he was then intubated, put on paralytic medications and heavily sedated. Although initial tests showed he didn't suffer any brain damage, other issues emerged that doctors predict will take months to heal, according to the page. After a few days of weaning off of sedation and the medications, on March 31, doctors removed Liam from a ventilator. Ten days after he was first intubated, he was able to breathe on his own and he started to wake up in the hospital's pediatric intensive care unit. 'Liam the past few days is becoming more alert and has started to ask questions,' his family said. His last memory is from lacrosse practice one day before the surgery, his family said. The 11-year-old has also become cognizant of the doctors coming in and out of the hospital room, which 'was starting to scare him more' and prompted him to ask questions about why he was there. The boy cried and said he wanted to go home, but the family noted he is making great improvements each day. After just another week, Liam was already regaining the ability to talk and walk a bit. As of Wednesday morning, the GoFundMe had raised nearly $18,000. His page hopes to earn $50,000 to pay for his 'tremendous' medical bills. The family did not disclose where the boy underwent the procedure.
USA Today
11-03-2025
- USA Today
Wisconsin boy, 4, calls 911 because his mom 'ate his ice cream.'
Wisconsin boy, 4, calls 911 because his mom 'ate his ice cream.' Show Caption Hide Caption 911 ice cream call, boy gets sweet surprise The Mount Pleasant Police Department is used to getting calls, but this week, they were called out to something they'd never seen before. Fox - Milwaukee Last week, two officers with a small police department in southeastern Wisconsin responded to a 911 call unlike any they had heard before: A 4-year-old boy wanted his mother jailed for eating his ice cream. Officers Rachel Gardinier and Francesca Ostergaar with the Village of Mount Pleasant Police Department went to the boy's home – first to confirm that was in fact the reason for the call and then to personally deliver him his beloved dessert. The lighthearted interaction began on March 4 in the town of Mount Pleasant, about 30 miles south of Milwaukee, when the young boy called 911 and told the dispatcher, "My mommy is being bad." According to audio obtained by TMJ4, the dispatcher responded "OK, what's going on?" "Come and get my mommy," the child said, as he seemed to begin to cry. Eventually, his mother is heard on the call saying, "Oh, this little one got the phone, and he's 4." "I ate his ice cream, so that's probably why he's calling 911," she later said. When officers arrived at the boy's home, he confirmed this, telling officers his mom ate his ice cream and "needed to go to jail" for it, the police department said on social media. Body camera footage released by the police department shows the boy's mother answer the door. "Oh, it's the police," she said. "They came for real." One of the officers asks the boy, "Did you call the police?" "Yeah," he said. "I told my mommy to go to jail. ... I didn't get ice cream." The officers and the boy's mother laughed about what happened and used the moment to teach him a valuable lesson: "No calling 911 unless it's a real emergency OK?" one of the officer said to him. The next day, the officers returned with exactly what the had boy wanted – some soft serve. The police department shared a photo of the officers and the child wearing a Super Mario shirt and holding a drink carrier with two cups of ice cream.
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Yahoo
Mount Pleasant 4-year-old boy called 911 on his mom for eating his ice cream. Here's what police did next
Police responded to a lighthearted call earlier this month after a Racine County 4-year-old called 911 on his mom for eating his ice cream. On March 4, Officer Gardinier and Officer Ostergaard with the Village of Mount Pleasant Police Department were dispatched for a 911 hangup, the department shared in a Facebook post last week. According to audio obtained by TMJ4, the boy told dispatchers, "My mommy is being bad." "OK, what's going on?" the dispatcher asked. "Come and get my mommy," the child said, as he seemed to begin to cry. Eventually, his mother is heard on the call saying, "Oh, this little one got the phone, and he's 4." "I ate his ice cream, so that's probably why he's calling 911," she later said. When officers arrived at the boy's residence, he confirmed this, telling them his mom ate his ice cream and "needed to go to jail" for it, the department said. Eventually, the child told officers he no longer wanted his mother to go to jail and "just wanted some ice cream." Officers returned the next day with two cups of ice cream and shared a photo of them giving it to the boy. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin 4-year-old boy calls 911 on his mom for eating his ice cream
Yahoo
09-03-2025
- Yahoo
Wisconsin Teen Murdered Mom With Dumbbell, Steak Knife After Watching Menendez Doc: Complaint
Reed Gelinskey is a 15-year-old Wisconsin teen who is accused of murdering his mom with a steak knife and dumbbell in the family's Caledonia home after being inspired by the Netflix documentary on the Menendez brothers. "Why?" a graphic criminal complaint says Gelinskey's mom asked him as he stabbed her multiple times after hitting her over the head with the dumbbell. Shortly before, Suzanne Gelinskey was sitting on the couch working on her computer when her son turned on the Netflix show "The Menendez Brothers," the criminal complaint says. Lyle and Erik Menendez are serving life prison terms in California for the murders of their mom and dad. 'Gelinskey stated he then developed the plan to kill his parents. He stated it came to him while he watched the 'shotgun scene,'' the complaint says. His mom went upstairs, and the teen grabbed a steak knife and put it in his pocket, according to the complaint. He told his mom he couldn't find his medicine and hid a dumbbell bar in the sleeve of his sweatshirt while she came downstairs to look for the pills, it adds. 'Gelinskey stated while his mother's back was to him he hit her twice in the head with the dumbbell," the complaint says. She did not fall over, so he threw her to the ground and grabbed the knife, it alleges. The complaint says she tried to kick him off seven times, but he stabbed her three times in the chest and twice in the neck while she asked, 'Why?' He's accused of replying, 'Pain.' According to TMJ4, Suzanne Gelinskey worked as a "4K Educational Assistant at Knapp Elementary School." According to the criminal complaint, a Caledonia police officer was sent to the family's home along White Manor Court in the Village of Caledonia around 10:30 p.m. on March 4, 2025. A caller told police 'she received a Snapchat photo from Reed Gelinskey showing a female laying face-up on her back. The complainant also advised she saw a Snapchat photo with blood on the floor.' Gelinskey, who was covered in blood, told police that he 'struck his mother over the head with a dumbbell in an attempt to knock her out so he could stab with with the knife," the complaint says. Gelinskey's mom was discovered on the ground in the foyer of the home with 'apparent stab wounds and blood-soaked clothing," it says. Police recovered a silver dumbbell near the refrigerator and a second knife near the kitchen. Gelinskey exited the home when officers arrived and dropped a brown and silver kitchen knife on the home's stoop, urging officers to kill him and saying, 'She is dead from what I did," according to the complaint. In an interview with police, Gelinskey said he came home from school and 'felt depression and an urge to kill his parents," the complaint says. He had been taking his brother's anxiety medication for about a month and took about nine pills during the night, it says. He searched the home 'for a hammer because he was going to kill his father when he came home from work but could not find one large enough," the complaint says. Reed Ryan Gelinskey was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, according to Wisconsin court records. His address was given as Franksville, Wisconsin. "On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at about 10:34 pm, Caledonia Police Officers were dispatched to a single-family residence in the 10000 block of E. White Manor Court in Caledonia. It was initially reported that a juvenile male at that address had possibly killed his mother," a press release from Caledonia police says. "As responding officers were arriving on scene, they were met by a 15-year-old juvenile male who was exiting the front door of the residence and surrendered himself to officers without incident." "Officers cleared the residence and located an adult female deceased inside the home. Lifesaving efforts were attempted, but she had already succumbed to her injuries," the Calendonia police statement says. "Preliminary investigation indicates the victim was stabbed and also sustained blunt force trauma. The victim was identified as the mother of the juvenile male who surrendered to the responding officers." Gelinskey's father Ryan Gelinskey appeared at his March 7 court hearing by Zoom but did not make any statements, the records show. His Facebook page describes him as a chemical operator for a corporation. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 12. The court records say Reed Gelinskey's bail was set at $1 million, and he was allowed monitored contact with his dad. A woman who knew Suzanne Gelinskey wrote a tribute to her on Facebook, saying, "She was so kind, patient, smart, caring and an all around great person. My kids loved going to her house, hanging out with her boys and I trusted her 100%. She was the type of mom another mom could feel good about leaving her kids with."
