Bret Baier shares two children, Daniel and Pau, with his wife Am, and his life went upside down when they learned that his elder received a “scary diagnosis”
Bret Baier rarely unveils fans their life away from Fox News StudioBut when his family was a worrying health scare, the 54 -year -old did not stop sharing his story.
This has been more in recent years, When he opened on the story of his 18 -year -old son, Paul, born with five congenital heart flaws. The special report host was opened about the ordeal to the people, saying: “His heart was essentially pumping the wrong way and we did not know before we were born.”
Shortly after Paul’s birth on June 29, 2007 Their first open heart procedureThen another at three months, 10 months, 6 years and 13 years.
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After his most recent surgery, Paul’s family, including Bret, his mother Amy, and his 15 -year -old brother Daniel, thought they would do the scary hospital stay until the 1920’s.
Unfortunately, this would not be the case, as in 2024, Paul went down with a common cold and, as a precaution, Amy took him to the doctor. It had an x -ray of thorax, then a magnetic resonance imaging. It was when the family faced another scary diagnosis.
“MRI returns and they assure me and say,” It’s a really big thing. It is a aneurysm of the size of a golf ball that has been formed from his heart, “Bret recalled in the publication at that time.
“And they didn’t know if I could explode, but if he did, he could have been fatal in minutes,” he added.
As a result, he followed another open heart operation, which is even more stressful than before. “It was exponentially more stressful and emerging, and we were not ready for it,” Bret admitted.
The surgery went to plan, and a year later, Paul is ready and looks to the future.
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“The recovery was impressive. National Children’s National Doctors and Nurses [Hospital, in Washington D.C.]As always, they were fantastic, “said Bret, who said that Paul’s surgery went well.
“And Paul is in the mental space [that] Now it only climbs. And I think it, hits the wood, that this is the end of the open heart surgeries. “”
Bret noticed that although the worst is expected out of the way, “maybe it should have little things forward, angioplasty” in the future.
Fox News’ main political correspondent proudly shares that although his eldest son “lost a lot of school” due to surgery, recently finished his first year of high school and has begun to look at college.
Paul also recently celebrated his 18th anniversary. Her mother Amy shared a tribute to a healthy selfie of them. “Happy 18th birthday Paul! I’m so proud of the person you’ve become and so grateful for you every day,” he took.
“The bottom line is that we want him to be a normal child,” Bret said about his hopes and Amy for Paul in the coming years. “Seventeen years ago, we would be really happy to be here, after this first baby surgery,” he added.
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