24 — Sunday, June 27, 1999 - North Shore News
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You don’t write off your child

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child running around with a
slight coordination problem to
being confined to a wheelchair
all within 1991. By the time
Rachel was diagnosed with

MILD, it was too late fora bone
marrow transplant.

“The words that hurt us the
most was that, “You have to
write-off Rachel and let’s con-
centrate on Melissa’ Well, you
just. don’t write-off your

child,” said Jeanette.

Melissa received a bone
marrow transplant in 199}
from an donor in England. The
donor provided the missing
evevore. But the damage to
Melissa's body that occurred

NEWS photo Terry Peters

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betore the transplant continues
to manifest itself to this day.
Melissa did not show sigas
of the the disease unul one year
after the successful bone mar-
row transplant. “ft was abnost
night on cue that at the same
age as Rachel, she started to
deteriorate,” said Jeanctte.
Melissa is in a wheelchair

and is deteriorating slowly as

evident in the limited use of
some — voluntary mtascles,
Melissa is sighted and can com:
municate through moving her
eves or hands.

“She is able to keep) ier
smile and her giggles and
Melissa has a wonderful per-
sonality,” said Jeanette.

Jeanette's third daugitter,
Carrie, 12, did not inherit the
disease. Jeanette said Carrie
was tested and does not possess
a recessive gene for MED.

Friday marked a milestone
for the Badger family with
Melissa’s Grade 7 graduation
from Dorothy Lynas clemen-
tary.

Jeanette said the occasion
would be emotional for her as
the girls were in Grade } and
kindergarten at the school
when they were diagnosed
with MLD. Jeanette said that
the — students and staff have
been tremendously supportive.

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