Disabilites... got any?

[AngieDoogles]

Originally Posted by Tink

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!

Wow, what an impressive life she has lived! I'm sorry you had to go through such pain Tink, especially on your first pregnancy, but I'm glad your daughter has come so far and achieved so much! She must have a pretty awesome mom!