Elijah is “strong, determined and resilient, a bit like me actually,” Kaddy Thomas said of her son.
Kaddy Thomas says she was abandoned by her mother as an infant for having Apert syndrome. Decades later, her son, Elijah, was born with the same condition.“When you are brought up in residential care, despite having clothes on your back, food in your belly and a roof over your head, you don’t get that love and security that you would ordinarily get if you were brought up in a family unit,” she added.
“He went from a young boy who was crawling, eating and going to nursery, dance to music to a child who then became motionless, I didn’t recognize him,” she said, admitting her “life was turned upside down.”@kaddythomas/Twitter in Elijah’s name to raise awareness for their rare condition and provide support to families and caretakers.
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