The sad case, by David Vetter, that fascinated science and moved the whole world.
I am not a mother, I am still too young, but I see my mother and her desperation to take care of us, to help us, to always be with us and she reminds us that she would not bear if something happened to us.
We know and we are aware that we must all die, at some point, but we do not expect it to be as fast, as David Vetter.
It is a very sad story, but it caught my attention and I know that this child inspired science to be able to have treatments for these types of conditions. He isolated for 12 years, unable to feel the affection of his parents.
This little boy was born in Texas in 1971, his doctors and his parents already had the knowledge that he could be born with a hereditary pathology, which would need care. So the doctors prepared to receive him with a delivery room, totally clean and disinfected.
As expected, the child is born with the disease, which is known as * Serious Conbined Immunodeficiency * as its name says, it is an autoimmune disease, this means that his body could not defend itself naturally .
This disease causes any germ that circulates in the environment or in other people, to become a lethal invader.
These children are born normal, but over the months, the antibodies begin to disappear and they are unable to produce them by themselves, this due to a genetic problem in the bone marrow.
This family had already gone through something like that, they had a son, who was born with this same pathology and did not survive for long. They were warned from the beginning of the pregnancy about the high probability that the child would be born with the disease, but they decided to continue and wait since they had a completely normal daughter and they hoped that the one who was born would also be normal. .
On top of that, they were confident that science could find a cure, ASAP. In fact there is a movie inspired by this story called * The boy in the plastic bubble *
The doctors proposed to the mother, before birth, that the child grow up in a kind of plastic home, while studies were carried out to find a cure or treatment and this would be funded by the state, it sounds difficult to imagine such a small child locked in a bubble.
The child had different environments, connected through plastic tunnels, in one he had his toys, the walls were transparent and had a kind of arms, so that outsiders could touch him and at the same time he could grab things, he kept swollen thanks to some compressors that kept it that way, although it was very noisy. The little boy tried to lead a normal life similar to that of others, this was his home during the years of life he had.
He did not know what the warmth of his mother was, he did not come to have skin-to-skin contact with anyone, he was a prisoner of his own disease, unfortunately.
NASA designed a suit that was connected to an air machine so that David could go out for a walk for the first time, although Dvid used it a couple of times it was not to his liking, apparently it was uncomfortable and he refused to use it again. .
Unfortunately, the doctors did not find a compatible bone marrow transplant and instead, they tried a different technique, his sister was the donor and the operation seemed successful, until they realized that the transplant gave him a virus called * Epstein-barr * He spent 2 weeks in the hospital and during that time he was released from his bubble, but the situation worsened. The doctors knew that this was not right, the boy asked to go home.
On February 22, 1984, David said goodbye to his psychologist telling her that he loved her very much and winked at his doctor, closed his eyes and minutes before he died, he received the mother's kiss for the first and last time. of the.
He could judge his mother, for getting pregnant even knowing what would happen, but I also know that his hopes were high, he longed to have a healthy son, unfortunately David was born with this problem and his story is sad, but at the same time he was able to know the world, It was not easy for him, my heart wrinkles when I see his images, but I understand that God wanted it that way and it was his will.
