After months of fear, medical procedures and uncertainty, two members of an Oklahoma family are expressing thankfulness this Thanksgiving.

9-year-old Connor Sneary, of Alva, is still dealing with some health hurdles.

One day after the Sneary family returned home from spending spring break at the Oklahoma Youth Expo junior livestock show at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City, Ashlee Sneary got sick.

She eventually was admitted to Integris Bass Baptist Medical Center in Enid on March 22, as Connor Sneary started to feel ill.

On March 25 — the same day Ashlee Sneary learned she had E. coli — Connor was admitted to Share Medical Center in Alva. He was flown to OU Children’s Hospital the next day.

“Soon after he arrived, they diagnosed him with STEC-HUS, which is shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7-hemolytic uremic syndrome, which caused acute kidney failure,” Ashlee Sneary said.

Officials have told the Snearys there were numerous people confirmed to have gotten two different strains of E. coli — all after being at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds — around the time the two got sick, Ashlee Sneary said.

“From talking to parents of other children that were hospitalized as well, the only thing that we seem to have in common was eating from the same food truck,” she said.

Connor had to have a neck port put in for kidney dialysis.