Cerebral Palsy Disease

Have you ever heard of a disease called Cerebral Palsy? Cerebral Palsy is a brain defect that affects the human body in many ways and I myself have a very close connection to this disease. My little sister has had the disease Cerebral Palsy since she was born. Since she has had the disease, she has suffered greatly through surgeries and body abnormalities.

My little sister, Summer Pittman, was born on September 25, 2003. Nobody knew it at first, but my sister had a disease called Cerebral Palsy and this was not discovered until over two years after she was born. The disease was uncovered when my parents started getting worried when she was not saying her first words or taking her first steps like most babies do. They took her to the hospital to try to find out what was wrong and the doctors took some …show more content…
She has had bone realignment surgeries on her legs to try to get them to stay straight because of her disease. Most of the surgeries were,however, sadly, not very successful. Another type of surgery that Summer has had in her life was a placement of a feeding tube in her stomach. A feeding tube is a very small hole in the stomach that you connect a cord to which connects to a tube which you pour her food or medicine into. She got the surgery when she was about five years old and since then it has been one of the only ways she can receive food. It is one of the only ways she can receive food because she can not eat any type of solid foods. Just recently she had her first surgery she’s had in about 4 years. It was a placement of a new feeding tube that was placed lower than her first one to restrict her from being able to puke.

This is what the life of my sister Summer Pittman has been like since she was born. Her life has been filled with many challenges and difficulties, but her and our family have pulled through them. We will continue to fight and pull through