Hello and welcome to Daniel's web-site.
Daniel is a very special little boy, not because he is ours but because he has a unique chromosomal condition. By unique we mean he is currently the only person in the world with it.
Daniel has a partial trisomy and a partial monosomy of the short arm of chromosome 9.
You may ask what does that mean? Unfortunately we are still asking the same
question over 9 years down the line, but slowly we hope the picture will become
clearer. Because there are no other registered cases in the world, we learn
day by day and it is Daniel who teaches us.
There are however a small amount of children in the world with chromosomal abnormalities
such as a deletion on the 9th chromosome. This means they have a missing part
of the 9th chromosome.
There are also children with an addition (extra part) to the 9th chromosome.
Such is the precision of genetics that only now are the medical world beginning
to understand what these abnormalities may mean and how it will affect our children.
What we do know in Daniel's case that growth and development are affected, to what measure we just do not know. In the section headed Medical Condition we have highlighted areas in Daniel's development from head to toe. Only time will tell how affected Daniel will be. The positive thing is Daniel is progressing as time goes on and we live in hope.
Daniel has a brother called Jordan who is 15; Jordan is perfectly healthy and carries no trace of a chromosome 9 disorders. He loves Daniel to bits and they are very close. It cannot be easy for a sibling to come to terms with having a disabled brother, as other children can be cruel. We look at Jordan and feel so proud because as far as he is concerned that's just his brother. His Mum is Heidi and his Dad is Daryl.