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February 25, 2012 by PHF
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Thanks so much to our NC State Director Lindsey Dewar Musgrave and her beautiful daughter Marley! Raising Awareness & helping to Fund a Cure for Hydrocephalus!:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A routine ultrasound turned frightening for a local mom as she learned her baby would be born with a life-threatening condition.
Lindsey Musgrave remembers the day when she learned her son Vincent would soon have a sister.
“We were elated,” Lindsey said. “My husband wanted a girl. I wanted a girl. I just wanted a healthy child, though.”
That same ultrasound revealed something else.
“The doctor looked at me and he looked very concerned,” Lindsey recalled. “He said there was something wrong with her brain. It didn’t hit me at first. I was thinking it can’t be that serious right? And then he said, ‘No it’s really serious.’”
Her baby’s condition was so serious that the doctor told her to consider aborting the pregnancy.
“I asked them if she would ever be able to walk or talk, or ever be able to form relationships and the answer to those questions was, ‘I don’t know.’”
Lindsey also asked if the baby would be able to lead a normal life.
“They flat out told me no,” Lindsey said.
Marley was born with a severe case of hydrocephalus, which is excess fluid that puts dangerous pressure on the brain.
