{"id":13730,"date":"2019-10-14T16:27:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T16:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=280921"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:07","slug":"2-year-old-cancer-survivor-with-down-syndrome-hears-for-first-time-her-body-started-trembling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/2-year-old-cancer-survivor-with-down-syndrome-hears-for-first-time-her-body-started-trembling\/","title":{"rendered":"2-Year-Old Cancer Survivor With Down Syndrome Hears For First Time: \u2018Her Body Started Trembling\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-year-old Grace of Strongsville, Ohio, is a two-time cancer survivor who was born with Down syndrome.<\/span>Grace was born with a form of leukemia called transient myeloproliferative disorder. She was only 2 days old when she began treatment. And since Grace was also born two months premature, she barely weighed over 4 pounds when she began chemotherapy.<\/span>Later on, Valerie learned that Grace was also deaf.<\/span>WJW Cleveland first caught up with Grace after her hospital stay in 2018, when she was in the process of learning sign language. Her mother, Valerie, was also on a mission to get her daughter a set of life-changing cochlear implants that would help her strengthen her verbal speech.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/FOX 8 News Cleveland<\/span>
\n<\/span>Grace eventually received cochlear implants at Cleveland Clinic Children\u2019s hospital \u2014 allowing Grace to hear her own name and mother\u2019s voice for the first time.<\/span>Valerie says her daughter was so overwhelmed at the moment her implants were activated that her whole body started to shake.<\/span>\u201cAll the sudden hearing all these things \u2014 it\u2019s very, very overwhelming to her. It\u2019s a lot, I would imagine, for her to take on. So when we did put it on, her whole body started to tremble,\u201d Valerie said.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/FOX 8 News Cleveland<\/span>Grace is cancer-free these days, and her mom only wants the best for her.<\/span>\u201cI don\u2019t ever want to put limitations on her,\u201d Valerie said.<\/span>Learn more in this video.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two-year-old Grace of Strongsville, Ohio, is a two-time cancer survivor who was born with Down syndrome.Grace was born with a form of leukemia called transient myeloproliferative disorder. She was only 2 days old when she began treatment. And since Grace was also born two months premature, she barely weighed over 4 pounds when she began […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44416,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions\/44416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}