{"id":3194,"date":"2022-02-14T21:52:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T19:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2022-02-14T21:52:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T19:52:27","slug":"the-boy-who-lives-to-tell-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/articles\/the-boy-who-lives-to-tell-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Who Lives to Tell a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>He was also born with <em>Trisomy 21.<\/em> This is a genetic chromosome disorder causing developmental delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dante lost his foot while in hospital after open heart surgery and has since started developing <em>Vitiligo<\/em>, a disease that causes the loss of skin colour in blotches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dante is unable to walk because of weak muscle tone and doesn&#8217;t speak because his thyroid is not fully developed. Due to his foot loss, he is forced to move around on is stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dante is now 7 years old, still in diapers and eats only processed food. He needs physiotherapy and surgery, OT, dermatological and neuro assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His full story can be followed on the GoFundMe link below. Should you wish to donate to his cause the money raised will go towards getting him; a personal physiotherapist, diapers, a wheelchair, a bone specialist to assess his options regarding the lost foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dante&#8217;s family cannot afford to give him the much-needed medical attention to live a comfortable life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only through prayer to God and help from the good people of the world will Dante have a fighting chance. GoFundMe Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gofund.me\/ba6c3659\">http:\/\/gofund.me\/ba6c3659<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Dante&#8217;s story. At his birth on December 10, 2014, Dante was diagnosed with a rare heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). This a rare heart condition is caused by a combination of four heart defects and causes oxygen-poor blood to flow out of his heart and into the rest of his body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-schoolscharity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}