Marc was born on the 28
th October at 10.00am weighing in at 7lb 2oz....He had the most beautiful big brown eyes and still does.... When Marc was 6 weeks old he started being really sick and could not keep a feed down.
I called the doctor who admitted him to hospital as he was dehydrated his soft spot had sunk right in and he was very sleepy. When we got there he was placed on a drip and picked up over the next day or a week later we got to take him home
But a few weeks later the same thing happened back to hospital we went... This went on for a few months but the doctors could find nothing Marc's doctor who still sees him today was stumped and really couldn't think what was wrong but we knew something was.
Time passed and before we knew it my wee man was 1.. He wasn't walking had not long learnt to sit on his own was trying so hard to copy his big sister Courtney....
Then one day his temperature was high and he had a seizure back in hospital he had 2 more which were linked to his temperature being high.
One day at clinic i sat Marc down on the floor and was chatting with a paediatrician and Marc pulled his arms up and started laughing i thought nothing of it until she told me it was a type of seizure called jelastic seizure's and more tests confirmed epilepsy.
She refereed us to see a geneticist who within 20 mins confirmed Neurofibromatosis.
I hear you say and the hell is that ... Well its genetic condition due to mutilation of chromosome 17...... Now NF for short can affect people in many different ways it varies from person to person some are mildly affected others they like Marc have hurdles to jump in everyday life.
A few years have now passed and Marc is now 10 years old and copes with his condition amazingly he is a brave bright little boy.
Marc has spent many nights in hospital with myself at his side mainly because he has a poor immune system and picks up bugs viral infections easily and his body temperature rises fast and goes very high and sometimes causes him to have a big grand mall seizure.
Marc attends main stream school and has a learning support assistant who is just brilliant with him. The school he attends pulls out all the stops to support him as Marc has poor lower field vision (he will not see things right in front of him ) so the school bought him a special sloping board so he can do his work like the rest of his class mates.
People with NF sometimes have slower mobility than their peers Marc is mildly affected by this but you only tend to see it when he is with his class mates or playing sporty things with other kids his age.
This is a brief in site into Marc and his condition i am going to be doing a blog about the daily challenges NF throws at us i hope you enjoy reading our blog.
The top photo is of myself and Marc minutes after he was born .... The other is Marc about to go of out a walk ....