“We love her just as she is and could never imagine not having her with us. She completes our family in a quirky kind of way. We won’t ever stop fighting to get her well. I believe in miracles, and she is one.”
A message from Summer’s family:
Summer was diagnosed with the kif1a gene (de novo) when she was just 2 years and 10 months old.
Summer has an older sister, Jasmine aged 7, a brother Tyson aged 4 and she is very loved. Mum realized after having 2 older children progressing and meeting their milestones that Summer was a little delayed. It was always a busy household and mum always felt that since Summer was the 3rd child, she would just catch up. It was never a concern… until it was.
It was hard to do anything with Summer, go anywhere, as any sounds- a dragging of a chair, a car revving, the sound of sticky tape- would set Summer off into a screaming frenzy.
Mum would stay home with Summer as dad took the older 2 out to live life and do “normal “things.
Summer started Occupation Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy at age 1 years old. We continue these therapies along with others including hippotherapy. Therapies everyday…. Except for Sundays.
Summer loves music, she loves to dance. She is not yet walking, but she has taken 2-3 steps recently before falling.
For being “legally blind “with Optic Nerve Atrophy- and non-verbal- this kid keeps moving and pushing forwards. She is a taurus, very strong willed and determined… and LOUD!
We love her just as she is and could never imagine not having her with us. She completes our family in a quirky kind of way. We won’t ever stop fighting to get her well. I believe in miracles, and she is one.
