112: Abby’s Story | Skeletal Dysplasia, a Prenatal Diagnosis with Grim Hopes of Survival, + Ditching the Bubble Wrap
For the first part of Abby’s pregnancy with her son Jackson, everything was perfectly uneventful. But at her twenty-week ultrasound, her medical team discovered some unusual markers. This appointment set off a chain of visits, tests, and specialists that eventually ended in a diagnosis of a rare and life-threatening form of skeletal dysplasia called osteogenesis imperfecta.
In this episode, Abby and her family were thrown into the world of medically complex caregiving and advocacy, which sometimes included teaching other nurses and medical professionals how to care for their son. Abby tells…
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