Parker – El Paso Children's Hospital

Parker – Testimonial

Welcome Back, Parker

The sun was bright. The music was pumping! Parker was a 10-year-old at a swimming pool in the summer–exactly where he was supposed to be!

Suddenly, he slipped on the water slide and hit his head. Everything seemed normal at first, until the car ride home when his mom noticed Parker constantly repeating himself. They rushed to an emergency room.

Imagery revealed severe bleeding in Parker’s brain! The team immediately called resident neurosurgeon Dr. David Jimenez for emergency surgery. Pediatric experts available in El Paso went to work to address a potentially life-threatening brain trauma.

Today, Parker is an avid tennis player. And to pool slides everywhere, he says, “I’m baaaaack!”

El Pasoan, Kayla “The Truth” Gomez, is a champion boxer on the US National team and will represent Team USA in Europe. But things were not always so certain. When she was an infant, Kayla started having occasional seizures, and they continued until she was three years old.

Now 15, Kayla is only focused on training for her next championship. She follows a strong family tradition–her mom is also a boxer and her grandma is her trainer! All along, El Paso’s Children’s Hospital keeps an eye on her success and her health. We are ready if she needs us, with pediatric specialists close to home. We are Kayla’s hospital, and she’s El Paso’s rising star…and that’s “The Truth”!