Diagnosis

When your child is different, you are desperate to find a reason. Our diagnosis for Allie is that she has a micro-insertion on the long arm of chromosome 22. This affects all the connective tissue in her body. She has dyspraxic, dyslexic and dysgraphic tendencies. She has a phenomenally high pain threshold for broken limbs but cannot bear her hair being brushed. Our file at Sick Kids is massive from years of doctors adding countless ideas but no definitive answer as to what her diagnosis actually was. There is no cure but you have to deal with all the manifestations of their difficulties, no matter how different they are each time. All we want for our daughter is be as independent as possible.