Tell Me What Time It Is: Doctors and Surgeons and Nurses, Oh My! (Part Two)

The true story of 14-year-old Lewis Schofield, an award winning professional kid with cool ideas, Asperger Syndrome (a form of Autism) and now, Myasthenia Gravis, too. Myasthenia Gravis is a life threatening, debilitating, rare and complex neuromuscular auto-immune disease for which there is no cure. It strikes 1 in 500,000 children (Source: Karen Hill-Whitson, president of the MG Ontario chapter).

Lewis underwent a thymectomy on June 10, 2009 at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario (Canada), He decided a month prior to his surgery that he would create a video that would help explain Myasthenia Gravis and why thymectomies are sometimes performed on people diagnosed with MG.

His original video entitled "Tell Me What Time It Is: My Life WIth Myasthenia Gravis" which was uploaded to YouTube in March 2009 is being used by Sick Kids as well as by a number of health organizations and MG chapters around the world.

This is Part Two of this 3-part video. In Part Three, Lewis discusses openly what he went through after the surgery.

Visit Lewis at his website at www.thisislewis.net to learn more about Lewis "Codeboy" Schofield.

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