Jessica and Thibault are the happy parents of two grandchildren: Maylone, 3 years old and Leewane, 1 year old. If the little girl is doing like a charm, the boy seems to have kept the after-effects of his esophageal atresia since he “cough since he was a baby without stopping“. A state of health that made the young woman crack.
On October 7, 2019, Maylone Garcia, son of Thibault and Jessica, showed up. A birth that did not go as planned since the little boy suffered fromesophageal atresiathat is, his esophagus was not fully formed: “He was missing a centimeter, so the food was not going to his stomach, he couldn’t feed himself and it was connected to the lungs“, explained Jessica Thivenin on Snapchat. After several weeks in the hospital and an operation, the whole little family was able to return home, but the (serious) complications had followed. Indeed, following this birth defect, the little boy had choked on his bottle several times – including twice in front of his parents.
“We were panicked and all of a sudden blood came out of his mouth. We started to say to ourselves: that’s it, it’s over. Thibault took Maylone and we ran to the taxi, we were screaming and we was crying. Everyone else in the hotel too. The hospital wasn’t very far. And I asked Thibault how Maylone was and he told me: ‘he is dead’. He was not breathing and his eyes were open.” told the Marseillaise, when Maylone was only two months old. A hard blow lived a second time, only two months after this first episode. “He becomes dead again. He is very small. He has a small body. He’s only four months old told Jessica to the media Brutin June.
“Maylone cough cough. Jpp I crack.”
Three years after these facts, which parents find it hard to forget, and multiple stays in the emergency room, Maylone still seems weakened. In a story posted on her Snapchat account this Sunday, January 15, Thibault Garcia’s wife wrote: “Maylone coughs coughs. Jpp I crack. I can hear him coughing, it’s horrible, it must be worse for him… We still have an appointment on Monday with the pediatric pulmonologist. We changed pediatricians 3 times here in Dubai. In France, the pediatrician, she put him on background treatment since July, in the end he is still coughing. She had said treatment between 4 to 6 months. So it’s January and it’s been 6 months“. Visibly at the end of the rope in the face of this fragile health, the reality TV candidate specifies “We cleaned the air conditioners, we put a purifier and humidifier in his room“. And to add “Jpp really, Jpp I don’t know what to do anymore, he’s been coughing nonstop since he was a baby“.
A few hours after this distress message, Stéphanie Durant’s best friend spoke to the camera: “It’s horrible when you see Maylone cough, it’s depressing… Maylone, his health has been complicated since he was born. The fact that he coughs all the time is depressing. We will continue to search, but it is tiring!“. So, let’s hope that the next scheduled medical appointments will be beneficial and positive for this mom filled with despair… To be continued!