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Personal Narrative: My Son Lorenzo

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“LORENZO” My son Lorenzo is one of the most courageous people that I know. Everything that he has gone through and always has a smile on his face. Lorenzo was born on April 11, 1998 at 5:25pm. That morning started out like any other morning, Michael, my oldest was almost three and woke me up. I got up and made him breakfast. After that, I got in the shower. I began to feel pains in my stomach and they were coming about every five minutes. I called my mom and asked her if she could come over. When she got there, I was on the floor with Michael playing with his blocks. I told her that they were about four minutes apart. She got my bag, grabbed Michael, and said, “Let’s go to the hospital.” We got to the hospital around 1:30pm, and I was in so much pain. The nurse came in, hooked me up to the machines, and told me that I dilated to 4cm. Around 4:30pm my doctor came in to check on me, he yelled, “Get me the ultrasound machine in here STAT!” He told me that I dilated to 10cm but the baby was breech and he could not turn him. So he told the nurse to get me down to the OR right away and call the anesthesiologist. When we got in the OR it was so cold but I was in so …show more content…

He was not rolling over or even attempting to and when I spoke or there was a loud noise he did not react. I took him to his doctor and he sent us to a couple of specialist that ran a bunch of tests. Once all the results were in, they had me come in for the results. He explained to me that he saw a decrease in white matter on one side of his brain and that he had moderate hearing loss. He then sent us to a genetics doctor that also ran a bunch of tests on Lorenzo and me. Once those results were in, they told me that he had a chromosome abnormality. They explained that there was an extra piece on chromosome 22. His final diagnosis at that time was mild cerebral palsy, hearing loss and multiple

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