Meghan King Edmonds’ son making progress after brain damage diagnosis
Meghan King Edmonds‘ 1-year-old son Hart is “already seeing progress” less than a month after being diagnosed with irreversible brain damage.
The former “Real Housewives of Orange County” star shared a photo of herself and the toddler in a hyperbaric compressed oxygen chamber Saturday, which she said either she or husband Jim Edmonds “dive” into with their son four times a week.
Meghan, 34, told her followers the treatment has helped improve her son’s ability to lift his left leg on stairs when his right leg is restrained, bear crawl, take steps with assistance, and cruise from the couch to the coffee table.
“Is it because of this alternative therapy, is it because he’s just getting older, is it because of PT, or is it because of his 3x/weekly chiropractor visits?” she asked, adding, “Who knows, but it’s not hurting! Go Hart, go!”
The reality star recently opened up to Page Six exclusively about the time she got Hart’s MRI tests back, which showed he had periventricular leukomalacia, an injury that causes damage to the white matter in the brain.
“It was a relief,” Meghan said of the results. “It was vindication in a weird, twisted way. Vindication I didn’t want, but I knew that I would get.”
The mother of three, including Hart’s twin, Hayes, and 2-year-old daughter Aspen, is planning on flying to Napa Valley, California, soon for a three-week intensive therapy program for her son.
“I really wanted nothing more than to just be a crazy hypochondriac mother, but I knew I wasn’t,” she told us. “Because of that diagnosis, I got him into all these therapies.”