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

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 Three of the 3-part video. In this segment, Lewis discusses openly what he went through after the surgery and offers his observations and thoughts on the benefits of undergoing a thymectomy.

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

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[MIDNIGHTinCHICAGO]

@crazyurmel2 Thanks for your comments on Lewis' video about his surgery last June. It was a hard video for him to put together ... lots of memories. However, like you said, it has a happy ending because he is alive to make the video. He hopes that his video makes it not so frightening for others who might have to go in for surgery in the future.

[crazyurmel2]

What an interesting story. It´s not easy to watch it because it´s touching (and my English is rather poor). But I got it.

And finally it has a happy end here. I´m glad.

Ahhh, what is here all on earth.....

I´m such old and surprised again and again.

Great video and very well told and cutted.