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|Family praying heart | Police check

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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

ASHLEY Cranwill and 19-year-old son Thomas are
awaiting the results of the boy's surgery almed at
reducing an arterial blockage near his heart.

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surgery will save son

Robert Gaister
News Reporter roberf@usnews.cont

THOMAS Cranwill’s famiiy is
holding its breath in the after-
math of a life-saving beart
surgery the 10-year-old under-
went yesterday.

Cranwil’s daylong surgery: marked
the first dime the procedure has been
performed in Canada and involved
complicated set of operations aimed at
clearing a blocked artery.

“The basic bottom bine is if we don’t
do ithe wot survive. But there's a high
Tisk to doing if,” said Ashley Cranwill,
the boy's mother.

Thomas was bot with a heart detect
that was not immediately diagnosed and
resulted in severe complications while he
underwent energency surgery asa baby,
Since then he has been diagnosed with

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brain damage. cerebral palsy and? a loss of
saice and hearing mised with a partial
tows af vision.

“Well, its certainly the toughest
thing weve ever been through butt
know we dont have a chore.” said
Ashley.

The Cranwills faunched a lawsuit
against the Calgary doctor responsible
for Thomas’ misdiagnosis ac birth but
were only partially successtul, While che
presiding judge muled wrongdoing had
occurred, he found the Cranwills’ hwver
failed to draw a line between the doc-
tors negligence and Thontas’ brain
damage. As a result, the family has been
on the hook for teal fees of both sides
totalling more chan $300,000.

Donations to the Thomas Cranwiil
Fund can be made at any branch of the
Royal Bank of Canada.

“Most of all] just want people to
pray tor our son” said Ashlee.

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astonishing.”

Rowen Island RCMP Const. Bob
Dean ws tavesugating the incident, but
said he doesn’t expect to complete his
report to Crown counsel until the end of
the week.

“We're going to talk to everybody
that saw anything,” said Dean adding he
plans to interview about 300 more wit-
Resses.

“He (Litlemore) hasn't been arrest-
ed. He was advised he was being investi-
gated.”

A recording at Litdemore’s Bowen
Island contact number said he was out of
town for several days; Suragnese did nat
seturn News calls to press time Tuesday.

GYVRD spokesman Bill Morrell said
he was aware of the incident but had no
additional information.

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