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HOUSTON – A Houston family is speaking with FOX 26 about their young son in hopes that sharing his journey helps other families facing complex medical issues feel less lonely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I just want to be a normal boy\u2019 <\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
10-year-old Caleb Escobar is small for his age and tires easily.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At 11 months old, Caleb was diagnosed with a rare medical issue involving his esophagus. His family tells FOX 26 that they tried to feed him soft foods like mashed potatoes, but he kept spitting them up.<\/p>\n
According to his family’s GoFundMe<\/a>, Caleb was born with “esophageal narrowing.” Following medical advice, the family tried medications altering Caleb’s diet and therapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n He ultimately had his esophagus removed, pulling his stomach up to replace his esophagus.<\/p>\n “This will be his life. Balloon dilation after balloon dilation,” said Caleb’s father, Rian.<\/p>\n “No one in the world has what he has,” said his mother, Christine. “There’s a lot of times he will say, \u2018I just want to be a normal boy.\u2019”<\/p>\n Upcoming surgery <\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n According to his family, his doctors say he needs another major surgery that could better help his stomach.<\/p>\n “This procedure we are going to have on December 3rd is a 50\/50 chance, so we have to roll the dice.”<\/p>\n If successful, the surgery could allow Caleb to pass food in a timely manner and allow the intestines to do everything that’s supposed to happen, making his wish of being a normal boy come true.\u00a0<\/p>\n If not, Rian says, “Me and his mom will continue to fight for him.”<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Caleb’s mother recently made a GoFundMe to support his medical bills and other needs. You can click here if you wish to make a donation.<\/a><\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report comes from the Escobar family and the family’s GoFundMe page.<\/p>\n Health<\/a>Houston<\/a>Family<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – A Houston family is speaking with FOX 26 about their young son in hopes that sharing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[541,584,56,58,57,242,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-481108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-family","tag-health","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}