How is a baby with a super rare disease in the world, "just born old"?

"Pepper" Nguyen Thai An Khue owns a strange appearance, just born old, making many people sad. Her energy to live and overcome her illness has melted millions of hearts.

It is known that at birth, Nguyen Thai An Khue (name at home is Gao, born in July 2021) is like other normal children, weighing 3.2 kg and 52 cm tall. However, at the age of 6 weeks, Ms. Pham Thi Mai (35 years old, An Khue's mother) felt that her child was not developing. At that time, Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City has a large-scale outbreak of COVID-19, so it is very difficult to go for a health check-up.

At a private clinic, Gao was diagnosed by a doctor with hypertonia in the leg muscles, possibly due to brain damage. The phrase "brain damage" scared Ms. Pham Thi Mai but tried to put aside negative thoughts to devote herself to taking care of her child according to the doctor's instructions.

Two weeks after the first examination, no matter how much effort they tried, the doctors still concluded that baby Gao was developing abnormally. Holding her baby out of the clinic, Ms. Mai's legs were unstable.

She and her husband decided to take their child to all large and small hospitals for intensive examination. All results were normal, but through clinical symptoms, the doctor diagnosed the baby "with abnormal signs".

Genetic test results also showed that there was a gene mutation in chromosome 1 that causes Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS). The disease causes children to age prematurely and usually only live to an average of 14.5 years old - this disease is super rare in the world.

After that time, Pham Thi Mai seemed to become a different person, just lying in one place, without the spirit to do anything. Mr. Nguyen Trung Kien (37 years old, Mai's husband) understands that his wife loves his child very much, so he is the most depressed. So near Tet that year, he took his two children back to his hometown first, in the hope that his wife would have time to calm down.

Right at the time of parting at the plane gate, Mai began to regret it. The words of the door control staff: "Daddy, where is your mother?", made the emotions contained in her burst. Running away from the airport, she sat down in an empty corner, sobbing.

The house has been empty since that day. For a week, every time she called her husband and children, Pham Thi Mai only cried. The process of self-contemplation helped her face the most painful reality. A super rare disease that makes little Rice sometimes only have a few years to live in the world, she feels sorry for always denying her child.

On the 28th of Tet, Pham Thi Mai crossed a distance of several thousand kilometers to return to Thai Binh. Welcoming her at the door of the house were 3 smiling fathers and children. Husband and wife and children hugged each other in tears.

Mai began to take Rice outside in the wind and always tried to spend full time after work to interact and play with her children. Because of his unstable health, Rice has difficulty sleeping. Most recently, she suffered from pneumonia lasting 1.5 months, treated at the clinic for 2 weeks, 1 month at the hospital.

Through the examination process, the doctors also said that Rice responded slowly to the drug, possibly partly because the organs in the child's body were gradually aging. The baby's developmental milestones, from sitting, crawling, and standing, are slower than normal children. Fortunately, Gao is now able to follow the tables, chairs, beds and cabinets to go where he wants and also talk more.

The journey with their adult children was also recorded by Pham Thi Mai and her husband, posting videos on social networks, such as how to bring the image of their daughter - who is suffering from stigma - to become close. They both believe that this is what makes their children's lives meaningful.

Surprisingly, the positive videos of baby Gao and his family received great attention from social media platforms. In one video, tens of thousands of people left comments in front of the baby's lovely, shaky face when playing hide and seek with her mother.

In another video, viewers are touched by her sly appearance when making a chili smoothie to tease her father or the scene where she automatically dances every time she listens to music. Viewers' hearts melt into the moments when the little boy gave a loving gesture to his mother and sister. Millions of people also expressed their gratitude for the family for spreading positivity to the community, especially Ms. Mai's maternal love for her child.

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