Woman reunites with father-son doctors in Plantation who helped reconstruct her skull in battle against brain cancer

A woman from Plantation reunited with the father-and-son doctors who helped reconstruct her skull in her battle against brain cancer Mariana Gonzalez was diagnosed with the life-threatening illness in Ever since receiving the assessment every day became a battle in order to be there for the majority significant person in her life I have my son My son was born with Down syndrome and years later he was diagnosed with autism He is the reason that I want to live commented Gonzalez But Gonzalez wasn t alone in her fight The -year-old received remedy from a talented organization of doctors including from Dr Guillermo Pasarin and his son Dr Anthony Pasarin I would like to thank them both father and son stated Gonzalez Guillermo a neurosurgeon and Anthony a general surgeon worked side by side at HCA Florida Westside Hospital in Plantation to rebuild Gonzalez s skull restore her scalp and give her hope I think that doing surgeries in general obviously comes with skill leadership but doing those procedures with a family member somebody that you look up to somebody that has taught you everything in life you know it s a wholly different experience revealed Anthony and so not only are you doing a procedure to treat the person like you invariably do you re also doing a procedure with your father and you re having a different sort of bond that most of people maybe won t have in their life Nearly years ago Anthony walked through the hospital hallways as a teenage volunteer for the first time learning from his father Now those dreams have come full circle becoming a expert in his own right and working alongside his dad on a life-changing procedure Emerging a plan on how we re going to reconstruct the scalp with my plastic surgeon attending Dr Weiss and chosen of his partners and then after doing the procedure with them and with my father I was able to help keep up with the post-operative management as well announced Anthony At that point we decided to involve my son Anthony and the plastic surgery squad which is what he s training for to get involved and I would go in and clean and remove everything that was nonviable announced Guillermo and then we called his club in to rebuild and reconstruct you know with skin flaps and everything so that we would prevent her from having an infection For Gonzalez her scars tell the story of a survivor For her biological crew it s also a story about love resilience and life She is one of the ones who have beaten the odds for sure reported Guillermo As for the surgical family affair they hope this is just the beginning of their work together to help more patients live to share their stories of survival Hopefully we may have another intervention together potentially before he retires reported Anthony Gonzalez is still undergoing therapy but is doing better