Sick Kids Needing Kindness
This page is dedicated to children with illnesses that are not life threatening. The Children featured here have illnesses that affect their daily living.
Please Meet Ariel
Date of Birth: May 15, 1994
Ariel is the youngest of five children and the only girl. She has has 4 other sibliings. Daniel , Michael , Bret and Nicholas. Ariel was born in at 6 lbs 3oz. and was 3 weeks premature. She was a very pretty baby with a head full of black hair. Even though she was only 3 weeks premature she had a lot of serious problems at birth. She went into respiratory arrest and it took them 8 hours to stabilize her. She spent a week in Intensive care and was fine after that. I started noticing other problems with her around reading age and just thought she was a slow learner. By the age of 9 Ariel still couldn't read, so I sent her to a private tutor for a year all to no avail, plus I had used numerous reading programs myself without success. I then started noticing she didn't seem to understand me and took her to Speech, Language & Learning to have her tested. I was astounded to find out she was moderate to severely delayed in all areas of language and comprehension.During this time there was also a lot of
weird medical symptoms going on. Osteomyelitis in her spine, swelling out of nowhere, difficulty swallowing, low grade temps all the time, stomach problems. We had been to countless doctors and specialists and were starting to
get treated like hypochondriacs. With the help of our speech therapist we pushed for a Neurological examination,
because I started noticing even further decline in Ariel. She no longer knew her shapes and very preschool type
concepts became very difficult for her. The Neuro ordered tons of tests and to this day we are still in the
process of trying to figure things out. What we do know now is that her E.E.G shows seizure activity and that she is most likely Epileptic like her brother. She has significant disability and is now profoundly delayed in all areas of language and comprehension.She also has low pressure in her esophagus, G.E.R.D and lactose intolerance. Her main diagnosis is Epilepsy and cognitive impairment.
Ariel is now 12 years old but mentally, she has the mind of a six year old. Her mental abilities are diminishing, and she can no longer recognize shapes and colours.. She cannot read, but she likes being read to. She likes books with basic language that's easy to understand. Ariel loves animals of all kinds. She has a dog named Cocoa and a guinea pig named Brownie. She loves riding her bike, baking with mom, and having friends over.
We are happy to be finally getting answers for her.
Please send a card and let Ariel know that you care.
Mail can be sent to Ariel at the following address.
Ariel M.
P.O. Box 551
Burley WA.
USA
98322
