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Excerpt: 'A Different Life' Quinn Bradlee Grew Up With a Battery of Illnesses and a Learning Disability
This is a 26 month old male child with a four month history of seizures who the evening of admission had a fever which rose rapidly from normal to 104 degrees, at which point he was noted to have a grand mal seizure. He had been in his normal state of health until that afternoon, when he was noted to have a fever. The family gave him baths, Tylenol times two but the fever continued to climb. Private MD was called who advised to continue the same therapy, after which the temperature continued to climb to 104. Child had a seizure and was brought to the emergency room here from where he was admitted. Since his arrival to the hospital he had one seizure in the emergency room and was seen by the senior resident who admitted him. There is a history of seizures since February of 1984, initially occurring at a rate of several per week.
I can only imagine how freaked out my parents must have been.
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel.
It's like this......
Jason McElwain - Autistic Basketball Player
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