Marfan+syndrome_McIlroy

Marfan Syndome Jake, who is homozygous for Marfan syndrome, marries Sarah who is not a carrier. They have three kids, Bob, Jessica, and Kyle. Bob marries Amanda, who is not a carrier, and they have three children, Michel, Katie, and Maria. Michel, who is infected, marries Sophia. They have two children, Robin and Matt, who are both not infected. Jessica never marries. Kyle marries Carley, who is not infected, have two children, Eric and Ryan. Ryan, who is infected, marries Laura and they have twins, Mekenna and Abby. Mekenna, who is infected, marries Colin and they have five children; Chris, Steven, Chole, Joe, Brooke, Phill, and Mitchell. All of them except for Steven are infected.

I wake up at 7:00 o'clock am and go to the national marfan foundation. when i arrive at the place where the group is meeting before we go on a trip, I see a new child who is very depressed. I decide that it is early and once we get going he will cheer up. Later on the bus, I see him sitting in the back, still looking depressed. When we get to our destationation, a reserved camp where the people who have marfan syndrome can play sports and socialize with other people who have marfan syndome. The people their all have inherated marfan syndrome, in most cases they are extra tall and have skinny arms and legs.

Once again, I see the new member sitting on the side not talking to anyone. Finally I decide to go talk to him. When I finally get him to start talking, I learn that he did not inherite from his parents, because both of his parents do not have the domanant desiese, so he was one of the 25% of the people who didnt get it from his parents. After talking for a little while with him I finally learn the real cause of his depression. After training for weeks, he learns that he can not even try out for his school basketball team because he has marfan syndrome. Unfortunatly for marfan syndrome patinets, their is no real treatment to stop them from having the treatments. Altought they can be treated as a baby so they live as long as other people, they can not get rid of any of the syntoms. I felt really moved by his story and that night I found a basketball team where marfan syndrome people can play on and when I told him the good news, I could tell he was not only happy that he can now play basketball on a team, but to see other kids like him are in the same situation as him and that their are people who put this organization together for people like him.

This child was one of many people who have overcome their personal struggles with marfan syndrome and until someone comes with a treatment to get the people who have the diesese to look like everybody else, people will have to keep struggling through their own struggles with having this diesese. Even if you have this diesese, people should not give up and strive to be the best they can be. One examples of famous people who have overcome their struggle is Michel Philleps, who has done something that only a select few have done before, get eight gold medals at the Olympics. Marfan Syndrome is a unfortunate disease to have, but that shouldn't prevent you from doing what you dream to do.