Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Florida girl's rare disability causes abnormally large facial features | Synopsis

Florida girl's rare disability causes abnormally large facial features

Vintage Postcard ~ Little Girl w/Pigs
Vintage Postcard ~ Little Girl w/Pigs by chicks57
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She laughs when her sisters and brothers sing and dance and act crazy in front of her. Loud noises thrill her. She likes sweets and some salty snacks, even though she gets most of her nutrition through a feeding tube. She watches the Disney Channel with the rapt attention of most 4-year-olds. An account has been set up at Regions Bank in the name of Angie Renfroe for the benefit of Katie Renfroe. Catholic Charities is also working with the family. For more information, call 850-737-0864. But Katie was born with a rare disorder that makes her quite different than most little girls her age. Diagnosed with megalencephaly before she was born, some of Katie's facial features are abnormally large. She also had part of her brain removed as an infant to control the seizures that were happening as often as 50 times a day.

People:

Katie

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.802103

Angie

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.633823

SentimentQuote
-0.124462"I tried to figure out how we were going to deal with this," she said. ...
0.0320476"You can lay here, you can cry or you can leave this in God's hands, which is where she belongs," Angie remembers ...
0.396311Angie doesn't remember much about the delivery except seeing her daughter's "big, pretty cheeks."
0.299784"I'm grateful for my family, my kids, no matter how wild they get sometimes," Angie says, ...
0.270267"I'm grateful for my family, my kids, no matter how wild they get sometimes," Angie says, smiling. "I still love them."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 5
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.8739476
  • Mean: 0.17478952
  • Standard Deviation: 1

Danial

Overall Sentiment: -0.060954

Relevance: 0.436568

SentimentQuote
0.092531"He was trying to help us understand that she might be a vegetable," Danial says. ...
0.092531"He was trying to help us understand that she might be a vegetable," Danial says. "She ain't nowhere near what they said she was gonna be."
0"I told him, `If you can't handle it -- they're telling us it's going to be bad -- go now," she says. ...
-0.0870508"They're going to downsize her cheeks, fix her ear, shorten up her tongue," Danial says. ...
0.0650347"They're going to downsize her cheeks, fix her ear, shorten up her tongue," Danial says. "Once she gets rid of this weight, she'll be able to stand better."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 5
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.1630459
  • Mean: 0.03260918
  • Standard Deviation: 1

Katie Renfroe

Overall Sentiment: 0.0917845

Relevance: 0.374011

Danial Renfroe

Overall Sentiment: 0.0513485

Relevance: 0.348283

SentimentQuote
0.064854"All we know is we give her all the love, all the attention we know how to give her," says her mom, Angie Renfroe.
0.064854"All we know is we give her all the love, all the attention we know how to give her," says her mom, Angie Renfroe. "We've never treated her like she has a handicap."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.129708
  • Mean: 0.064854
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Megan

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.171167

Kenneth

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.163647

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