This is my story about Matthew Brewster

In December of 2012, our son suffered a freak brain trauma that resulted in hundreds of individual strokes. In a nutshell, not a single medical expert expected him to survive. But two months in ICU, over a dozen surgeries, three months inpatient rehab, years of therapy and countless prayers, Matthew not only lived, but has thrived.
CaringBridge enabled me to communicate with hundreds of family, friends, and strangers (who became new friends) each and every day of our journey. I tended to write late at night and I later found out that so many people would stay up waiting for their alert that I had posted. The people who followed his journey provided us with the material support we needed (food, clothing, help with our other two children), emotional support and the prayers that made it all possible.
CaringBridge provides a special place to share this kind of communication. Facebook was never an option for me -- it's a sterile, dysfunctional, place and our journey shouldn't have been mixed among posts about what someone ate or what political axe they had to grind. CaringBridge is pure and kind.
Here's to Matthew's survival and all of the people at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and everyone who has walked with us over the past decade!