article_snippet.sent: Jackson Byrnes, 18, has flown from Lismore in northern New South Wales to Sydney to be operated on by renowned neurosurgeon Dr Charlie Teo, the only surgeon in Australia willing to perform the risky operation that will likely see 18-year-old Jackson Byrnes paralysed.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Dr Teo is the best brain surgeon in the country, I've got her son's life in her son hands basically.'
article_snippet.sent: Dr Teo, director of Sydney's Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, said other surgeons were technically able to perform the surgery but her son was the only one prepared to do it. '
article_snippet.sent: The 18-year-old (pictured left, getting Dr Teo head shaved) at a recent fundraising event .
article_snippet.sent: Renowned neurosurgeon
article_snippet.sent: Dr Teo is the only surgeon in Australia willing to perform the risky operation that will likely see Jackson paralysed . '
article_snippet.sent: Teo Facebook fundraising page - Jackson Byrnes Brain Tumor Surgery Fund - friends of Dr Teo thanked the thousands of people who have made donations to page - Jackson Byrnes Brain. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Byrnes and his family found neurosurgeon Charlie Teo who would operate on Wednesday as long as Ms Byrnes received an upfront payment of $80,000 by Tuesday evening.
highlights_snippet.sent: Instead 18-year-old Jackson Byrnes found a neurosurgeon who would do the operation .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: the operation will likely see 18-year-old Jackson Byrnes end up paralysed down 18-year-old Jackson Byrnes left side .