Down's Syndrome
I remember looking at my cousin Ricky and wondering why he looked so different. He was the only one in a family of dark skinned Hispanics who was stark white. He had blond hair, beady blue eyes, a stocky body frame and a laugh that echoed throughout the mountains of Tucson. Most of the time he was his happy jovial self but the rest of the time he was sick. I can remember how paranoid everyone would get anytime someone got a slight cough. My aunt used to always say, "Ricky can't get sick or he might die." The truth of the matter was the doctor's had told her that he would not live to see the tender age of seven. The only thing I knew at the time was that Ricky sure looked funny when he laughed because you could hardly see his eyes and he didn't talk very good at all. They told us that he looked different from us because he was "retarded." My aunt said he was special because he was a mongoloid. There are many questions I had but instead decided to focus on the one's I felt most strongly about: *Why are some People born with Down 's syndrome? *What is the life expectancy of a person with Down 's syndrome?
take on the challenges of a child with Down syndrome they should have options, Smith, David S. "Frequently Asked Questions" Understanding The Gift of Life. *Today less than 5% of persons with Down syndrome have severe-to- n by making several trips to the UTSA library as well as to the San Antonio library and spending several hours on my computer at home looking for whatever information I could find about Down's Syndrome. I was also able to interview a doctor I knew in the Navy who gave me a lot of information on my topic. I was also lucky that my aunt Delia who is the mother of a twenty eight year old man with Down's happened to be in town for a wedding and gave me first hand knowledge of my topic. Bobrow, Martin, Hall, Sue, and Marteau Theresa M. "Psychological Conseqences for There is no cure for this syndrome, but the option not to have a child with Down already exists. Tests during pregnancy can detect the condition. According to one study where they tested the Serum screening it was found to be able to "detect between 36percent and 76 percent of fetuses affected by Down's syndrome, depending on the combinations of serum markers used."(407-412, Bobrow, Hall, and Marteau)
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