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10-22-2007, 10:28 AM
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Donating 4WT 2000 Club Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Rural Wisconsin
Posts: 3,707
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Of my 3 children, only the oldest has really had medical problems. She was a twin, and I miscarried her sibling but managed to carry her to 35 weeks. When she was 4 days old, her medical problems started to be noticed. She weighed only 4 lbs 15 oz at that time.
She was born with a hole in her heart (Ventricular septal defect) and a ring growing around a coronary artery that was closing it off. She had major heart surgery at age 4 where they actually stopped and re-started her heart to get the needed repairs done. She has no sinuses in her forehead; had her appendix, gall bladder and several ovarian cysts removed in her early teens. She had a tooth that grew sideways in her gum rather than down as it should have, and had chemical imbalances in her brain that caused life threatening episodes many times over about a 12 year period. I seriously doubted for a long time that she would live to be an adult or ever have a normal life. She is now 33, married, is a private care nurse, has 2 darling kids of her own and I'm extremely proud of her. She was a fighter and won!
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