Aaron Chalmers’ ex-girlfriend Talia Oatway has shared another health update about their son.
The Geordie Shore star, 37, welcomed baby Oakley in the spring of 2003 and the couple initially kept the news that he had been born with Apert Syndrome to themselves until recently.
After his birth, Aaron and Talia revealed that their “little soldier” would be “in surgery for 18 to 24 months,” while his mother would remain by his side.
On Saturday evening, Talia said the little one needed another operation to address the fact that his cerebrospinal fluid was leaking.
She wrote on Instagram: ‘Bringing your child to the theater has never been easier. They’re going to try to see where the CSF leak is coming from. They won’t place a shunt yet because Oakley is still on strong IV antibiotics.”
Aaron Chalmers’ (pictured) ex-girlfriend Talia Oatway has shared another health update about their son
On Saturday evening, Talia said the little one needed another operation to address the fact that his cerebrospinal fluid was leaking.
She added: ‘There will be a meeting next week to discuss long-term plans if this continues to leak. They said he might have a drain installed today.”
On Sunday, she updated her followers to explain that medics had found a hole under her son’s skull and that he now has a lumbar drain to help alleviate the problem.
She said: ‘Had another operation last night. They found a hole under Oakley’s skull that was leaking CSF. He has a lumbar drain for now to drain the CSF.
‘There will be a meeting on Monday to discuss the next step which will probably lead to another operation, for example a shunt.’
The NHS describes Apert syndrome as “a type of complex craniosynostosis affecting the skull, hands and feet,” in which bones fuse together before birth.
‘The facial bones are also affected, because the cheekbones and upper jaw do not grow in proportion to the rest of the skull. The bones around the eyes are spaced wider apart and shallower than normal, causing the eyes to bulge outward.’
Talia shared a series of photos from the hospital cradling Oakley in her arms. Another sweet photo showed him smiling broadly with a stuffed monkey.
The NHS describes Apert syndrome as ‘a type of complex craniosynostosis affecting the skull, hands and feet’, where the bone fuses before birth
After keeping his diagnosis private, Talia explained that Oakley was born with Apert Syndrome, in a heartbreaking update shared this week
After his birth, Aaron and Talia revealed that their ‘little soldier’ would be ‘in surgery for 18 to 24 months’ while his mother would remain by his side (pictured together last year)
She wrote: ‘This is OAKLEY. It was the hardest seven months of my entire life. I have been thrown into a medical world, without warning, without time to prepare
‘It’s only now that I feel like I can come to terms with everything, finally deal with how I feel and embrace our new normal.
‘This is my beautiful son Oakley Bleu, he was born with a rare genetic syndrome called Apert Syndrome.
‘Apert syndrome causes the premature fusion of sutures in the skull, creating a different shape of the head. Syndactyly – fusion of the bones in the hands and feet). A cleft hard palate causes problems with eating and speaking.’