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Originally Posted by maleficent
For all the reading I have done because of my friends child, I honestly dont know a lot about the cerebral palsy... In my friends case, their daughter wasnt diagnosed with it until she was two years or older... the seizure they thought were related to other things... I'm not sure what, if any, the statute of limitations are on suiing for medical malpractice, but they may have had waited a while for legal advice... I know in my friends case, it never occured to them to sue, and the child's grandfather is an attorney.. .the two sets of grandparents put a lot of money into trust for her and that pays her medical bills.
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I have little knowledge of CP, and probably far less than you. Maybe the prosecution in this trial described the causes in such a way that it made it an easy six hour decision for the jury.
I transcribed notes for a woman studying at Berkeley because she had lost the fine motor skills of her right hand due to CP. My single experience with Janet certainly doesn't give me any "expert" status. However, she was in her mid '30s, and struggling to meet the requirements of her undergraduate degree, and never was deterred.
She never came from any sort of resentment about what CP was doing to her body, and she didn't look to blame anyone, least of all the doctor that delivered her into the world.