LOS ANGELES (AP) — Freddie Freeman returned to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup on Monday night after missing eight games to be with his ailing 3-year-old son who is out of danger after a serious medical diagnosis. “I’m back," he said, "so that means good things are happening at the Freeman home.” After an initial diagnosis proved incorrect, Maximus Freeman was found to have Guillain-Barre syndrome, something Freeman and his wife, Chelsea, had never heard of.
The rare neurological disorder occurs when the body’s immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system and causes nerve damage and muscle weakness. “Seeing one of your kids on a ventilator fighting, it was hard,” Freeman said, his voice choking. “That's the heartbreaking thing.
No one deserves to go through something like this. I know you parents understand that. You'd switch in a second to take that pain, that suffering away from your kid in a heartbeat.
When you feel hopeless, like Chelsea and I did, that's hard.” Speaking to the media, he cried at times and wiped his eyes and nose with a towel. “If you talked to me six days ago, I would never have been able to speak,” Freeman said.
“The reason I’m able to get through this is because of the huge wins we’ve been getting the last few days with him. It’s been a miraculous recovery, that’s what they say to us.” Maximus first got sick during the All-Star break in July, when the family traveled to the game in Texas to cheer on Freeman.
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