![]() That’s a long way from abandoning me on a mountain. Just tweaks, he called them,” according to Mom. Curious, I asked my mother what doctors said to her about my diagnosis – specifically the kind Dr. ![]() in medical school, because little was understood about the condition, this callous treatment toward a family in crisis is appalling. Putting aside the fact that doctors were not being educated about C.P. Another said that the solution “was to take such children on top of a mountain and leave them.” ![]() One doctor advised Killilea that Karen had “no intellect,” and to put her in an asylum. What I didn’t expect was the huge difference, comparing the optimistic attitude of my own doctors in the 90s and early 2000s with the medical opinions on C.P. I thought it’d be smart to get a parent’s perspective. ![]() Step one in writing about my own childhood with spastic cerebral palsy has been to read Karen, by Marie Killilea – a book about another cerebral palsied kiddo, written by her mother. ![]()
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