{"id":4986,"date":"2019-05-23T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/?page_id=4986"},"modified":"2019-10-01T08:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T12:47:02","slug":"rs-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/research\/what-we-study\/16p11-2-deletion\/rs-story\/","title":{"rendered":"R&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By: Antje, Parent of &#8220;R&#8221;, a 16 year old with a distal 16p11.2 Deletion<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;The grass does not grow faster if you pull it. Keep cool with your child, they will reach all milestones in her own time&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings?<\/h3>\n<p>Good<\/p>\n<h3>What does your family do for fun?<\/h3>\n<p>play something together, bowling, billards, trips<\/p>\n<h3>Tell us about the biggest hardship your family faces.<\/h3>\n<p>Unclear medical findings<\/p>\n<h3>What about your child puts a smile on your face?<\/h3>\n<p>When she is driven to her boyfriend, eating chips, telephone with her boyfriend<\/p>\n<h3>What motivates you to participate in research?<\/h3>\n<p>That disability is better investigated<\/p>\n<h3>How do you feel you are impacting our understanding of the genetic changes being studied in <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Searchlight<\/span> (16p11.2, 1q21.1, or single gene changes)?<\/h3>\n<p>I hope it helps<\/p>\n<h3>What have you learned about your child\u2019s condition from other families?<\/h3>\n<p>For the moment other families learn from us, because my child is older than the others, but I see a lot of similarity<\/p>\n<h3>If you could give one piece of advice to someone recently diagnosed with the genetic change in your family, what would it be?<\/h3>\n<p>Congratulations. You now have an answer to your question as to why the child is as they are<\/p>\n<h3>What is one question you wish researchers could answer about your child\u2019s genetic change?<\/h3>\n<p>Why the gastroeosophagial reflux is so difficult to treat, after two surgeries we has now after 4 y problems once again<\/p>\n<h3>Is there anything else you would like to share with other families?<\/h3>\n<p>The grass does not grow faster if you pull it. Keep cool with your child, they will reach all milestones in her own time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Antje, Parent of &#8220;R&#8221;, a 16 year old with a distal 16p11.2 Deletion &#8220;The grass does not grow faster if you pull it. Keep cool with your child, they will reach all milestones in her own time&#8221; What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings? Good What does your family do for fun? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":161,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","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":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6301,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4986\/revisions\/6301"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}