Why Did The Odone's Try And Find A Cure

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The Odone's took more action to try and find a cure or a helpful medicine than any other person they met and any of the doctors they visited. The kept positives attitudes through the toughest times of their lives, which helped them keep fighting for a cure. The used many generic skills too. Mr. And Mrs. were just ordinary people who had a sick son but they educated themselves to try to find something to help their son, by educating they found all the symptoms and knew what to expect as he got sicker. Some of the generic skills they used were, selective attention, sustained analysis, analogizing, suspension of closure, and auto censorship.
When the Odone's used selective attention, they broke up their sons illness into parts, like what was causing in and what kind things they could do to try to slow or stop
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They took everything one step at a time, they were not worried about the future, just his health that day. When they used sustained analysis, was in the beginning of Lorenzo's sickness, when they had him on the first diet but his blood fat count was still going up they were like wait this isn't right. So Mr. Odone hit the books again to try and figure out why this was happening and if there was any other ways to fix his problem. When the Odone's started to analogizing they learned that the diet was not helping so they started to research more and more about studies done in Poland with rats that helped them. They got a hold of the people who did these studies and talked to learn even more. Even though everyone told them that it was dangerous and they don't know what these fats would do to Lorenzo, the Odone's were willing to try anything. When the Odone's started to prioritize the critical variables, like making sure Lorenzo did not choke on his spit, and read him

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