April 23, 2015 vol. 9 issue 42
No new tax increases for village services
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news Senior Star, Adventist Bolingbrook to present GERD lecture see page 3
Event gathers community to fight for one of its own By Laura Katauskas | Bugle Staff
schools VVSD honors 38 students with ‘Those Who Excel’ awards see page 5
county Drew Peterson trial set for July 6 see page 5
sports Cleaning up Spartans need to fix minor issues to have success
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ho needs normal? Certainly not Supermanny. Nor his family. Like the super heroes on the movie screen, the Bueno family has a mission. That mission is awareness, and they are full of fight, determined to make others believe there is hope after trauma. One little boy with his mom, dad, two sisters, family and friends are on a mission to fight Cerebral Palsy with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. In 2012, Manny Bueno was born four weeks premature, with significant brain damage. His is a story of defyng the odds. Though told by doctors he would likely not survive, his parents refused to believe there was nothing to be done. According to his mom Holly, doctors assumed he was deprived of oxygen at birth, explaining his set-backs. “He could not eat by mouth ever. He could not coordinate suck/swallow/breath. He did not cry. He did not feel pain. He did not have a gag reflex. He barely woke up. He could not see. An MRI at two days old showed total brain damage. His EEG was highly abnormal and he was a high risk for
Last year’s first Supermanny Shuffle brought more than 500 community members out to support the Bueno family’s efforts.
seizures,” his mother documents. After various surgeries and treatments, it was after a visit to his chiropractor that a miraculous change began. The simple idea that if he was deprived of oxygen, why not give him oxygen. Manny began Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in which 100 percent oxygen is pressurized into an MRI-like chamber for various amounts of time and various depths depending on purpose. “My little Supermanny found a miracle,” said Bueno. “After a few weeks treatment (1 hour a day) he began tracking…seeing me.
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