WIDE AWAKE : The Boy Who COULDN’T SLEEP | Toddler Medical Mystery | ABC News
A toddler who can’t sleep undergoes risky, life-changing surgery. |
Not long ago, saying goodnight to his mom and dad was nearly impossible for 3-year-old Rhett Lamb. In a case that baffled doctors, Rhett was awake nearly 24 hours a day.
“His body would give out but his mind wouldn’t; he’d still be awake,” said Rhett’s mom, Shannon Lamb. “He’d still be alert. It was extremely scary.”
One of the side effects of Rhett’s lack of sleep was bad behavior.
“He was in a bad mood all the time,” Lamb said. “He couldn’t play, he didn’t interact with other children. His frustration level was so high, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. He couldn’t communicate with anyone. It was heartbreaking.”
Rhett’s temper got so bad he would hit his mother, even giving her black eyes.
“He would hit you, he would bite you, he would head butt you and anything else around him, and you didn’t know from one minute to the next what was going to happen,” she said.
Rhett’s dad David Lamb said, “It was like he was losing his mind and there was nothing we could do to help him.”
The Lambs, who live in St. Petersburg, Fla., arranged opposite work shifts so one of them could stay home and take care of Rhett.
“You get to the point where you can’t function anymore and you can’t think straight, and you get up in the morning and you take a shower to go to work and you drive to work and you’re a robot,” Shannon Lamb said. “You are an absolute robot. And then you dread coming home ’cause you know it’s the same thing.”
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June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
well people always …
well people always say surgery is sooo scary but even the simplest of surgery can solve a lot of things
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
I was almost crying …
I was almost crying he’s so cute and he could not sleep
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Sleep tight. =)
Sleep tight. =)
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Poor parent’s and …
Poor parent’s and the child, but thanks to the doctors and todays technology theyu are happy now. The parent’s deserve such a great reward after all their suffering. God bless them
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
1 neck chop might …
1 neck chop might throw his head off!
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Wow I can’t imagen …
Wow I can’t imagen if I can never sleep
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
How could he move …
How could he move if he had three years without sleep?
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
how can they do …
how can they do surgery when he never sleeps LOL FAIL
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
@kikiXmoo no u dont
@kikiXmoo no u dont
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
@kikiXmoo Do you …
@kikiXmoo Do you have narcolepsy?
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Good parents, they …
Good parents, they deserve at least that
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
i sleep awake
it’s …
i sleep awake
it’s weird,
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
I couldn’t do it
I couldn’t do it
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
be an assasian
be an assasian
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
These whiny …
These whiny parents are so oppurtunistic they jumped at the chance to exploit their little child for national news. Besides that I bet the kid was just made autistic from too much television and underwent some crazy secret government surgical procedure. Whoe knows, I do know these two people suck.
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
wait wait wait.
he …
wait wait wait.
he didn’t sleep until he was THREE?
how did he survive?
how did his parents survive?
good thing they kept trying and being patient.
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
i hope his parents …
i hope his parents go to heaven for wat they did
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
@PyHMaple You’re a …
@PyHMaple You’re a coward. I hope you aren’t and never are a parent.
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Sorry, I didn’t get …
Sorry, I didn’t get the name of the malformation….Could you please tell me?
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
holy shit, i bet …
holy shit, i bet tat the government might want to exploit him for their own uses to create people like him.
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
if a 3 year old …
if a 3 year old tried to give me a black eye…
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
good parents but …
good parents but the real brave one is there kid, it must have been like living in a nightmare, so much frustration and stress from not sleeping, and not being able to talk to anyone..=(
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
he is so blessed …
he is so blessed with parents like them!
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
If I have this kind …
If I have this kind of child that gives me lots of stress, I rather commit suicide.
I can’t believe the parents undergo such a stressful process.
June 7th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Just like Kyle XY …
Just like Kyle XY from the sequels…