SUGAR CAMP - About 10,000 babies born each year will end up living with cerebral palsy. It's the most common of all childhood disabilities. One family here in Sugar Camp is doing everything they can to help their son who has been affected by this disability since he was seven months old.
"We found out slowly because he had some eye issues," says Katie Pitlik, mother of Lucas Pitlik; a local boy diagnosed with spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy. "His eye was turning in, so we went to get his glasses, and from there it just kind of snowballed and we got the diagnosis at seven months."
Lucas Pitlik will turn three-years-old in March. But for him and his family, it's been a long time since Lucas's diagnosis. There are three types of Spastic Cerebral Palsy; the form Lucas has, Spastic Quadriplegia, is the most serious.
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