Down’s Syndrome
I remember looking at my cousin Ricky and wondering why he looked so different. He was the only one in a family of dark skinned Hispanics who was stark white. He had blond hair, beady blue eyes, a stocky body frame and a laugh that echoed throughout the mountains of Tucson. Most of the time he was his happy jovial self but the rest of the time he was sick. I can remember how paranoid everyone would get anytime someone got a slight cough. My aunt used to always say, “Ricky can’t get sick or he might die.” The truth of the matter was the doctor’s had told her that he would not live to see the tender age of seven. The only thing I knew at the time was that Ricky sure looked funny when he laughed because you could hardly see his eyes and he didn’t talk very good at all. They told us that he looked different from us because he was “retarded.” My aunt said he was special because he was a mongoloid. There are many questions I had but instead decided to focus on the one’s I felt most strongly about: *Why are some People born with Down ‘s syndrome? *What is the life expectancy of a person with Down ‘s syndrome?
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Approximate Word count = 993
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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