January 2011
I find that when I tell people about Nick's brittle bone disease I get asked the same questions. They are as follows:
Will he grow out of it? Sadly no he won't grow out of it. OI is a genetic disease meaning he has genes in his gene pool that have mutated. This something that happened probably at the second of conception. Nothing anyone could have done to prevent it.
What do they do for that? We have to be really careful, teach him to be really careful. Physical therapy. You get the idea.
Does he get enough calcium? Actually, calcium has nothing to do with it. It's collagen that his body lacks. The link will better describe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteogenesis_imperfecta
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