Williams Syndrome - A Mother's Story
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome a very special guest, Vicki MacGregor.
Vicki is sharing her personal story and experience of her son, Stephen. Stephen was diagnosed with Williams Syndrome when he was 13 months old. We discuss what it was like as she was raising Stephen and the trials and accomplishments that they experienced.
Vicki is sharing her story for the first time in a very long time and shares how she handled this diagnosis and how through a mother's love helped Stephen to not be defined by a label. During this interview Vicki takes us through her journey raising him into a remarkable young man and we hope that you will be encouraged by her story and also become better informed about what Williams Syndrome is.
Connect with Vicki:
Email: victoria@victoriaspress.com
Website: https://www.victoriaspress.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:09.9 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local. Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.6 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.7 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.7 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try to make each episode |
| 0:37.4 | here at all home care |
| 0:38.3 | matters something that hopefully matters to you today we have a very special story and |
| 0:44.3 | guests that we will be sharing with you our guest vicky mcgregor will be discussing williams |
| 0:50.0 | syndrome and her son stephen unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, this interview will |
| 0:56.9 | be conducted by audio only and there will be no video, but we do hope that you find encouragement |
| 1:02.3 | and support in watching and listening to this story. Thank you so much. Welcome, Vicki, to all |
| 1:09.8 | home care matters. Welcome. Thank you for being here, Vicki. |
| 1:13.7 | Thanks, Lance. I'm really glad to be here and really thrilled that you've asked me to participate. |
| 1:20.4 | Absolutely. And I wanted to share your story. You have a son, Stephen, who was diagnosed with Williams syndrome at only 13 months |
| 1:30.6 | old, and I think you could share a lot of valuable, helpful information and encouragement to |
| 1:36.8 | families who may be going through similar circumstances as you were. |
| 1:41.2 | Why don't we start with when you first found out that Stephen was diagnosed with |
| 1:45.7 | William's syndrome? Sure. When he was 13 months, as you said, he was displaying up until that |
| 1:55.3 | point, he was displaying some weaknesses in his development. |
| 2:01.6 | He wasn't developing as quickly and as what we would say normally as his peer group, |
| 2:07.6 | which I had around me. |
| 2:09.6 | And they prompted me to ask the doctor about it. |
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