Stanek weekend video: DS super model
by Hans Johnson
Karrie Brown has Down Syndrome and autism. In the first week after her birth she suffered kidney failure and her respiratory system crashed. And then there was heart surgery. Though she recovered, her doctor was still not encouraging in her prognosis.
Well, look at her now! The 17-year-old high school junior from Illinois is an honor student who volunteers at the library and the YMCA. And that’s not all.
Karrie ‘s mom Sue took a photo of her in her outfit for the first day of school and posted it on Facebook. They got positive feedback and set up a page of Karrie wearing more clothes from the store Wet Seal, which assured them that if they got more than 10,000 likes in the next few days, they’d have a pleasant surprise for them.
The goal was easily reached, and mother and daughter were flown to Los Angeles for a photo shoot and, of course, Disneyland.
Here’s a report from KMOV, proving that “dreams really do come true”
[youtube]http://youtu.be/phGHaWdJvE0[/youtube]
Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.
[HT: TheBlaze]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Aww that’s incredible :)
Our son, Paddy, 7, has Down’s Syndrome. He’s kind, witty, popular, healthy and happy; he loves his life, and we love him and love having him around. So no surprise there. He may be a little harder work to take care of than the average 7 year old. But if you can’t take a joke you shouldn’t have s*x, says I. A world that doesn’t have room for Paddy – a world that encouraged his parents to kill him before he was born – is not just a world tainted with cruelty and wickedness: it is a world in danger of impoverishing itself.
First week of life? I think you mean first week after birth!
Good for them. If they aborted tho it would have been fine. Whatever floats your boat I guess
Jake, That’s rather callus. If they aborted her existence would’ve ended and this story would never have come to be. I think our world needs some positive stories like this.
Jake’s just trolling, MiT. Just ignore him.
Kelsey,
Point well taken. Thanks. I followed the source a little too closely on that phrase. It cedes the point to those on the other side of the Life issue, unconsciously or not.
Jake do you have any imperfections that make you unworthy of life? I will bet you do. What if you end up in a wheelchair one day? Should we kill you? Oh sigh…anyway this gal is a supermodel:)
Jake is way more disabled than Karrie will ever be.
How many times are pregnant mothers told how little their disabled children will be capable of? How many times are they told the lie that their ‘quality of life’ will be low? How often are they told the lie that their children, if born with any number of disorders, will be unable to have any affect on the world? Will be a waste of time and space? Would be better off dead?
Good for Sue, for choosing life, and for Karrie, who is helping to show the world that genetic disorders needn’t -and shouldn’t- be an automatic death sentence!
MaryRose,
Love that so many parents have raised their children to go above and beyond any expectation placed on them as babies!!
Exactly, Carla! We don’t know the capacity of anyone from how much hair they have, or how many chromosomes, or how loud they cry. A poor apgar score does not doom a child to mediocrity. We cannot assess the value of a human life even at the age of twenty, yet our doctors have the gall to try to do so at birth and even before!
Thank God for mothers and fathers with more sense than to believe it!
GALL is a good word for it!!
I can’t imagine what parents must go through when such “caring” doctors tell them their precious little ones will never amount to anything!!
I will refrain from typing what I would say to them!! :)