For the past few months, Alex Hoover, 14, has been unable to go to school due to his do-not-resuscitate order. Alex was born with critical aortic stenosis, and despite the severity of his condition, has been to live his life with relative normalcy - he's even been able to attend his local high school. However, over the last few months, his health began to decline - and Alex is increasingly at risk for going into cardiac arrest. If that happens, he would spend the rest of his life in and out of surgery, according to his mother. It was this knowledge that eventually led Alex's mother,...
- 1/29/2016
- by Diana Pearl, @dianapearl_
- PEOPLE.com
For the past few months, Alex Hoover, 14, has been unable to go to school due to his do-not-resuscitate order. Alex was born with critical aortic stenosis, and despite the severity of his condition, has been to live his life with relative normalcy - he's even been able to attend his local high school. However, over the last few months, his health began to decline - and Alex is increasingly at risk for going into cardiac arrest. If that happens, he would spend the rest of his life in and out of surgery, according to his mother. It was this knowledge that eventually led Alex's mother,...
- 1/29/2016
- by Diana Pearl, @dianapearl_
- PEOPLE.com
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