Help Hope Live for Logan Reese
Logan was a beautiful, healthy 3 year old boy and on March 17th, 2025 he woke up in the middle of the night with balance and breathing issues which eventually resulted in him being paralyzed from the shoulders down over the course of just a few hours. It was caused by an extremely rare idiopathic Spinal Cord Infarction (Stroke) which affects less than 1% of all people who get strokes annually. Due to their highly uncommon nature, pediatric strokes typically result in fatalities.
He has recovered from being on a ventilator and a trachea but continues to possess minimal physical movement and feeling below his shoulders. This is a disease that will affect him for the rest of his life and the only way to improve his quality of life and hopeful movement is with continued Rehabilitation therapies which have showed promise in improvement for Logan.
Updates (4)
March 19, 2026
Logan completed his 2nd Kennedy Krieger Intensive outpatient therapy in Baltimore. He worked very hard every day, with a smile on his face and got to celebrate on the weekend in between with his first IMAX movie seeing Hoppers. He even got to experience a couple of quick hit snowstorms as well which was an extra bonus. We are hoping the repetitive exercises and motions continue to build some new pathways and muscle memories for him in the coming weeks and months, that we can build upon. While we are happy to be back home, Logan has taken a real liking to being there as it allows him to be upright, like taking steps, swimming in the pool and riding a bike, allowing him to feel a little bit like other kids for small periods of time. This is what these donations allow Logan to do and we are so grateful for everyone who has helped us to provide these opportunities for Logan, and give us hope for continued recovery while also giving him some real fun again. Thank you again and thank you in advance for future ones.As re-engage with his familiar "Therapy School" at NAPA which is excellent. we have some decisions to make on a possible Nerve transplant Procedure which could enable some possible hand function down the road. More to come there as we chew on that decision but will update soon.We've added a new gallery to view with some photos of this latest experience.
January 26, 2026
2026 got off to a rough start. Instead of an update after a 3 week intensive therapy for Logan, on January 6th, he ended up being rushed to the local hospital due to respiratory failure and then airlifted to Wake Forest Brenner Hospital at Wake Forest for 18 days where he was intubated and/or on oxygen for most of it. He ended up with severe pneumonia, a lung collapse and other infections which brought quite a scare to all of us. However, he has bounced back and we brought Logan back home on the 23rd with new breathing apparatus to combat Logan's challenge when breathing on his own We have been trained on how to properly use it as this is a new hurdle for Logan to assimilate into his lifestyle, specifically when sleeping for now but also for when he gets sick in the future. Since he's come back home he's as happy as his usual self, finally getting to play with some of his new games from Christmas, plus a couple of new ones for his IPAD. He even got to enjoy a chance to play in the snow a bit as well. Most of all he's just happy to be back home as "the 4 of us" again and we could not be more thrilled as well. Going forward, we will ease Logan back into his weekly therapies in February and then prepare for his next trip to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore for the first two weeks in March. We are disappointed about Logan missing this most recent intensive therapy, as these benefit him greatly, but we are just thankful we are able to get him ready for the next one. As always we are so appreciative of everyone's support and all donations here go to Logan's medical support and future therapies. We've been so lucky already and appreciate the continued love and prayers.
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Guestbook
March 14, 2026
God bless you, Logan, and your family. Sending prayers for strength and healing.
Tabitha Conrad
March 14, 2026
Sending lots of love from the Hondros family! ❤️
Katie Hondros
March 9, 2026
Prayers for the Reese Family.
Lorraine Fischer
