Defied Every Doctor’s Prediction
A Fragile Beginning
Doctors once sent him home so he wouldn’t die under fluorescent lights.
His mother signed DNR papers, praying for “little more”
time as she memorized every curve of his skull.
Defying the Prognosis
Born with Pfeiffer syndrome Type 2, his future was reduced to percentages.
Still, he learned to walk, to study through exhaustion, and to live beyond what charts allowed.
Becoming the Unexpected
That borrowed time stretched into decades of surgeries and recoveries.
Today, Braden wears a uniform that demands everything from his body
and runs toward danger when alarms sound.
A Quiet Promise
The hospice nurse who once prepared for his death now frames his senior photos.
His life proves that “statistics are not sentences,” and that survival itself can be an act of defiance.
