EASTON — Keeping good grades — much less straight As — your freshman year of high school is an accomplishment for anyone.
But when it comes to 15-year-old Dylan Smith, those good grades are a testament to Smith’s perseverance.
For about three years, Dylan was too sick to attend school. After getting COVID-19 in January 2022, Smith developed long COVID.
At 12 years old, Dylan lost the ability to do anything for himself. Over time, he could no longer eat without a feeding tube or walk. He developed non-epileptic seizures, caused by trauma and pain.
“My pain got worse every day,” he said. “It kind of felt like my bones were breaking every second.”
There were two months where he stopped talking.
“And it’s not that he didn’t want to talk,” said his mom, Stacey Smith. “He physically couldn’t.”
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