Monday, March 24, 2008

Lorenzo's Oil

The story is about a 8 year old kid name Lorenzo he was dignossed with ALD, this disease is very deadly the effects to this disease is deaf, brain effects, bleeding from the mouth, mute, not able to walk, or pick up utensils. His parents took him to the hospital after he had some strange reactions in school in Washigton D.C they moved there from Africa. Then Lorenzo had a great fall off his bike on christmas day which had caused him to get stiches and the other fall he had was from a chair trying to grab an ornament from the chritmas tree. The doctors at the hospital began to run some test on poor Lorenzo the doctors found out that he had the disease called ALD which no one never new about it had just gotten it's name like a year or so back. They told Lorenzo's parents that he was going to die by the time he turned 10 because at that moment the doctors or scientist did not have any cure to the disease Lorenzo had. Lorenzo's parents trusted the doctors but they kept Lorenzo on a diet which was only increasing his blood pressure which if he goes over c 24 he could die. His parents took him off the diet and his mother found a scientist that had pure olive oil with no fat or transfat in it so they gave Lorenzo his medicine mixed with the olive oil and the funny thing is that he loved when his parents told him stories so every time Lorenzo's father would tell him a story. The next day the scientist called and said that his results decreased by 50% great progress but the neat few days the percent stood still in one spot. The Odons were very depressed  about the whole situation there son Lorenzo couldn't speak the doctors put him on a diet that could cost Lorenzo his life and on top of that no one beleaves the Odon's  that they may have found a cure to the evil and deadly disease ALD. Lorenzos father has been every day struggling in the library trying to study the deadly disease that poor Lorenzo has. Lorenzo lives after the movie his father found a cure for his disease he was given an award and medical degree for finding the cure to ALD. Lorenzo can see, hear, but he still can't talk or move because there are some things that you can't fix in your brain but he communicates with his mom and dad.

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