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BY KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporterThursday, July 18, 2013 | 7:43 AMKINGSTON, Jamaica — In the past two weeks, cabinetmaker and father of three Errol Campbell has been faced with a challenge that would send any parent into a tailspin.His once active five-year-old son Kervol was suddenly stricken with what seemed to be a mystery illness. A rush to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) has since left 42-year-old Campbell and his wife Melene constantly on their knees in prayer.“Doctors told me that they found that one side of my son’s brain is bleeding and the other side is swollen,” the obviously distraught father told the Jamaica Observer.Campbell said doctors have performed an emergency surgery on the child in the past few days and are now closely monitoring his progress.“Doctor seh it don’t look like him going make it; but, I am just keeping my fingers crossed,” the Linstead, St Catherine resident said as he disembarked a bus inside the Half-Way-Tree Transport Centre, tears rolling down his face.His spouse, too, Melene, has been finding it difficult to come to terms with their young son’s situation.“I am keeping my fingers crossed and praying. This is really a trying time,” she told the Observer from the hospital.On Tuesday, doctors at the UHWI said Kevrol, who has Sickle Cell, had suffered a stroke, which forced the emergency surgery. They said the condition is Subarachnoid haemorrhage — a life-threatening stroke caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain.Despite his pain, Campbell wore a brave face as he rode a Jamaica Urban Transit Bus to Half-Way-Tree on Tuesday, his 15-year-old son by his side.While on the bus, the grieving father made a donation to a travelling preacher, and requested a special prayer for his ailing son.The preacher agreed. Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver
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5-y-o boy suffers stroke; father seeks divine help
