{"id":45398,"date":"2024-03-26T12:10:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/?p=45398"},"modified":"2024-05-17T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T20:06:32","slug":"marianas-story-living-with-hecw2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/2024\/03\/26\/marianas-story-living-with-hecw2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morris&#8217; Journey With HECW2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What is your family like?<\/h3>\n<p>We have a daughter with HECW2 mutation. She is 14 years old and we recently found out. She&#8217;s been tested for many things throughout her lifetime. We live at home, just her dad and I. Her big brother also lives at home, he&#8217;s 19 and helps as much as he can but he&#8217;s moving soon.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><b>What do you do for fun?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">We like to watch movies as a family and go shopping.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><b>Tell us about the biggest hardship you face.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">We don&#8217;t have a lot of family or community support in our area.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15139 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18091933\/PEOPLE_desk-family-e1707309126417-300x220.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18091933\/PEOPLE_desk-family-e1707309126417-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18091933\/PEOPLE_desk-family-e1707309126417-1024x753.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18091933\/PEOPLE_desk-family-e1707309126417-768x564.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18091933\/PEOPLE_desk-family-e1707309126417-1536x1129.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18091933\/PEOPLE_desk-family-e1707309126417-2048x1505.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/b><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><b>What motivates you to participate in research?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">Getting a diagnosis finally for her makes her symptoms more explainable and helps give some answers to things we didn&#8217;t have before. It&#8217;s hard to watch your child suffer from something and not have any reason as to why. Participating in research helps to find answers even in the future.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><b>How do you feel you are helping <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Searchlight<\/span> learn more about rare genetic changes?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Even if it can&#8217;t help my child now I know the researchers will continue to work to find treatments to help with future issues or even medications that can help her.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><b>What is one question you wish researchers could answer about this genetic change?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">If there is medication or some treatment they can do to fix this change for her.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><b>What have you learned about your or your child\u2019s genetic condition from other families?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15175 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18092145\/PEOPLE_man-girl-step-hearts-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18092145\/PEOPLE_man-girl-step-hearts-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18092145\/PEOPLE_man-girl-step-hearts-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18092145\/PEOPLE_man-girl-step-hearts-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18092145\/PEOPLE_man-girl-step-hearts-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18092145\/PEOPLE_man-girl-step-hearts-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18092145\/PEOPLE_man-girl-step-hearts-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Nothing yet.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><b>If you could give one piece of advice to someone recently diagnosed with the genetic change in your family, what would it be?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">Be patient, take a deep breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the inspiring story of the Morrises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":11989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52005,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398\/revisions\/52005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}