Scott's Memoir

Scott Goldstein's Memoir

by David A. Goldstein

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Forward
April 1977
- Scott's First Sign of Neurological illness at age four+
- Scott Goes to Yale
- Scott Goes to Columbia [His First Hospital Admission]
May 1977
- Scott's First Surgery
- The Pathologists are Uncertain
- Scott is Discharged with an uncertain diagnosis
Summer 1977
- Scott Goes to Nantucket
- Scott becomes very sick again [His Second Hospital Visit]
- The Death Sentence
- Radiotherapy
September 1977
- Back to School
Summer 1978
- Scott Goes to Israel
1977-1984
- The Good Years - Scott was Asymptomatic
Thanksgiving 1984
- The Beginning of Trouble Again
June 15, 1985
- Scott's Bar Mitzvah
January 1986
- Press Again - Brain Shunt Surgery - [Scott's Third Hospitalization]
July 1986
- Scott's Racing Car
September 1986
- Scott Starts High School
- Scott writes about his hero
Late October 1986
- Recurrence of Spinal Tumor
Early November 1986
- Scott the Political Building Campaign
November 1986
- Scott has his second Spinal Surgery [His Forth Hospital Admission]
December 1986
- Scott Goes to Professional Wrestling
Christmas 1986
- SCOTT GOES TO FLORIDA AND MEXICO
January 1987
- Scott is Tutored at Home
February 1987
- Scott goes to Florida again
- Scott Third Spinal Surgery - [Scott's Fifth Hospital Admission]
March 1987
- Scott's Fourth Spinal Surgery [His Sixth Hospitalization
- A Pizza Party for the Children in the Hospital
- Scott's Sight is Affected
- Scott goes back to the Hospital
- Flowers for the Dreamboat
Late March - Early April 1987
- Brain Shunt Externalization
- Scott Has Major Brain Surgery and Serious Complication [His Third and Forth Brain Surgery
- Snoopy comes to Scott's Rescue
- Scott Hovers Between Life and Death
- Chemotherapy
April 9, 1987
- The First Time we were asked to "Pull the Plug"
- Neil Sedaka Sings with Scott in the ICU as he comes out of a Coma
April 1987
- Scott Sings at a Passover Seder
- Scott has round the clock private duty nursing care
- Scott Leave the Hospital
- Scott Display's His Sense of Humor at Home
- Scott Gets a Dog
May 1987
- More Chemotherapy
June 1987
- Another Brain Shunt Revision
The Summer of 1987
- Scott Spends Most of the Summer of 1987 in the Hospital
- Scott Has Seizure Activity
July 1987
- Scott has Seizure activity and again is hospitalized
July 15, 1987
- We Are asked to "Pull the Plug" again
July 21, 1987
- Scott's Fifteenth and last birthday is celebrated in the ICU
August 1987
- Scott has a Tracheotomy
November 1987
- Another Shunt Revision
December 1987
- Scott is Hospitalized again with infection
January 1988
- Scott's Last Month at Home
- Scott displays his sense of Humor
January 29-April 16, 1988
- Scott's Thirteenth and Last Hospitalization
January 29, 1988
- Scott is snookerd on Rena's Birthday
- Scott has yet another shunt removed
Early 1988
- Scott "Can't Remember When He had such a good time"
February 1988
- Another Shunt Revision
February 19, 1988
- Scott ask for a "coke classic with ice" on his last days awake
February 19, 1988 - April 16, 1988
- Scott Remains in a coma for fifty seven days
March 1988
- Scott's Condition Deteriorates
March 28, 1988
- We are all asked to "Pull the Plug" the Third Time
March 29, 1988
- Again we are asked to pull the plug
March 29, 1988 - April 16, 1988
- Scott's Last Days
April 16, 1988
- The Day Scott Died
- Afterwards
- Conclusion
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