We became the patients of Dr. Larry Dickinson in 1977, when one of our sons needed to be recircumcised. What a way to be introduced! Since that day, Dr. Dickinson delivered our last two sons, fixed lots of sprains and bruises, several stitches and finally, but not least, saved our fourth son’s life.
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In 1982, our school age son brought home chicken pox. In those days parents gave young children baby aspirin for fever. The baby aspirin and chicken pox virus gave our youngest son (14 mos.) Reyes Syndrome. On that fateful day, we took our baby to Dr. Dickinson’s home at 5 am, and he administered an enema sedative, which we learned later saved Christopher’s life.
We took Christopher back to Dr. Dickinson’s office about 11:30 am the same day. He immediately went into action. He called for life flight, which could not come at that point; he then called an ambulance and headed for Children’s Mercy Hospital. We had to make an emergency stop at Cameron Hospital for stabilization. While in the emergency room there, the Life Flight arrived. Off the flight ran a team of nine people that helped stabilize Christopher and would fly with him to Children’s Mercy.
We then followed in the vehicle to Children’s Mercy. When we arrived there, they took us into the conference area and began to list the possible side effects of this syndrome. Christopher could die. If he lived he could be paralyzed, retarded, blind, and deaf; the list was endless. I must admit I did not hear the words, “He could die.”
Christopher remained in Children’s Mercy for 16 days. He was in a pentobarbital coma for six days. He was on a ventilator, had a cranial screw in the top of his head monitoring his brain. He had an IV sutured into the artery in his neck, for blood testing several times a day. Several other medical mysteries surrounded the ICU. Christopher is now a healthy young man, 36 years old, with a family of his own.
In later years, Dr. Dickinson took great care of our 100-year-old mother, caring for her in her home and visiting often … She loved him dearly.
The moral to this rather lengthy story is that humble Dr. Dickinson has not told how many people he has saved throughout his medical career. We the Wiles family can never thank him enough for all his service to our families and for saving the life of Christopher!! Thanks Doc!!
Pat & Carl Wiles family