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After six brain surgeries, Hall teen holds toy drive
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Thirteen-year-old Cailem Rundles has went through six brain surgeries following a diagnosis of chiari malformation, but today is improving and about to see a specialist that could give him more mobility in his right hand. - photo by Scott Rogers
Cailen Rundles and his parents, Royce Rundles and Emily Burnett, walked Friday through the frame of what they hope to call their future home in Gainesville, plotting what will go where. Cailen, 13, has his short hair dyed purple, the color of Chiari malformation awareness, a condition his mother described as his “brain has fallen out of his skull.”