Ballet West is celebrating its latest production 'The Sleeping Beauty' and the return of one of its dancers from a life-threatening health crisis.
We often use the word "magical" to describe a Ballet West production.When it comes to young dancer, Loren Walton, the word is "miracle."
He spent 10 days in the intensive care unit at the end of September. Doctors diagnosed a twisting of his small bowel, life-threatening sepsis had set in and doctors gave him a 10% chance of survival. "I had two surgeries, one where they actually removed 6 feet of my small intestine and from there, it was like, learning how to walk, learning how to stand," Walton said.
"Just a lot of perseverance, a lot of faith, and just the hope that I will be able to be back where I was before all of this happened and maybe even in a better place," he said.
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