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Achondroplasia Blog: By Maddie Keller
==Today I am going to tell you guys how it works living with achondroplasia everyday. Well how about I start out with how it feels, it feels kind of weird, everywhere I go I attract curiosity, mostly from smaller kids. I have to learn to put up with it. Now I will tell you about my lifestyle, I live a normal, uininteresting life, I have a brother Brian who was bigger than me when he was born and I was 3. I am now 12 and my body is the size of a 5 year old's. My house is not that much differrent than anyone elses except I have a lot of stools and steps so I can reach higher things, my door handles are lower, and I have my kitchen counters lower but that is pretty much it. Now for the information about the disease achondroplasia. First, the symptoms, the symptoms of this disease include having a short stature, meaning you have a shorter body length, having thicker upper thighs and arms, which means the upper part of your arms and legs are thicker than the lower, having a prominent forehead, meaning we have a wide forehead and also a large head, we get multiple spinal problems including: spinal stenosis, kyphosis, and lordosis. Next, there are no specific treatments for achondroplasia, there are multiple disorders with this disease and they all require different treatments. Well thats all for today's blog, Bye guys!! (:==