The Acreage, FL – A South Florida mother has medical images that hold more questions than answers. She wonders why her teenage son developed a growth in his brain and kidney.
Zaida asks: "Is it something that might take his life one day? Is he going to be able to survive it?"
Zaida did not want her last name used. She and her son have kept his condition quiet.
The small masses were found two years ago when he collapsed.
She says, "He passed out and ended up in the hospital."
She thought she was alone. Then, she started hearing the reports of other adults and children with tumors; masses in the brain.
Their former house is near other people who have reported similar medical issues. They happened to move out right before her son was diagnosed.
She says the previous owners moved when the house became too much to keep up. The woman was sick Zaida says, "I find out she had a lump in her throat and it was cancer."
Whether connected or coincidence for Zaida it raises more flags.
She says, "Now I’m putting everything together and it scares me more."
Every six months new images must be taken of her son’s brain. He suffers from headaches. So far, the masses are small enough to leave alone. She has no idea what caused them.
Zaida says, "I don't but for sure I’d like to know."
Like so many others, she wants to know if something is causing the health problems and what it is.
It would be one thing she could be sure of as she deals with her son’s uncertain future.
