Unfortunately i have some devastating news to share with you all. On Friday at the family meeting, there were many doctors, the head of neurology, the x-ray techs, the ICU doctors and all of the doctors who have been treating Andrew since the beginning of his hospital stay. They covered all of the MRI scans with us and basically said they cant stop the seizing. Every time they try to lower the dose of medication (Coma meds) he starts seizing again right away. On top of that, all the damage the stroke did, and the 19 hours of seizing when he had his Grand Mal seizure and the seizures he had on top of that, that if he made it through this crisis his quality of life would be very very poor. The brain was damaged in all parts except a small portion in the frontal lope. The part of the brain that controls speech, swallow, sight, hearing, cognitivity, ect.. all of this was gone. At this point we were terrified for Andrew, we couldn't imagine him having to wake up like this, on life support, on all these machines and IV's not being able to communicate with anyone, not being able to see anyone, hear anyone. The doctors wanted to prepare us that at any moment Andrew could pass away.

Unfortunately last night after one  hell of a fight Andrew passed away at 9:36pm. All of Andrews close family and friends were with him. He passed very peacefully. There is no doubt in my mind that Andrew is in Heaven right now with his Grandpa Don playing Yahtzee and teaching him how to play Domino's. Andrew is the strongest person I have ever known, and I can not describe how hard this is going to be for our family and his many many friends to get through. Thank you all for caring so much for my brother. Andrew touched so many lives in his 19 years, and was loved by so many people. My sister will be posting the funeral arrangements.