OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) — A teenager getting ready to start high school is lucky to be alive after being diagnosed with Moyamoya back in 2022.
Moyamoya is a rare brain disease that reduces blood flow to the brain.
At just 12-years-old, while celebrating Memorial Day weekend, Taylor Neugent suffered an unexpected stroke.
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He was taken to the emergency room at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital and what came next, no one expected.
“I remember that I asked him to smile and that I asked him to raise his arms and the left side of his face was drooping, but still, the last thing that I would have suspected was a stroke,” Randi Neugent, Taylor’s mother said.
Once his mother got him to the hospital, things took a turn for the worse.
‘When we got there, Taylor walked into the ER, like with some assistance, but it went downhill pretty fast,” Randi said. “After that, he started seizing and they had to sedate him to get any testing done. It was really scary.”