Tag: Trisomy 18

  • Photo: Rick Santorum’s Daughter Bella Hospitalized with Trisomy 18

    Rick Santorum holding his 3-year-old daughter Bell who suffers of Trisomy 18
    Republican candidate for the 2012 U.S. presidential elections Rick Santorum, suddenly quit the campaign in Florida just to be with his hospitalized daughter Bella, aged 3.

    Bella, who is affected by the life-threatening genetic disorder Trisomy 18, was taken to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on Saturday.

    Rick Santorum chose to remain home [in Philadelphia] and besides the trip to Florida, he canceled also his appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and a stop at a Miami church.

    The republican lawmaker sent his daughter Liz (Elizabeth), 20, to Sarasota and Punta Gorda to speak on his behalf. Liz said a few words during a statement released in front of about 250 people who gathered in Sarasota.
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    “My father wanted to be here to join all of you today,” she said. “Today he is proving his most important role; being a dad.”

    “Rick Santorum plans to come back to Florida and continue his campaign schedule as soon as situation allows him,” his representative Hogan Gidley said.

    Santorum did not expect Bella to live to her 1st birthday. The disease is quite critical as half of babies born with Trisomy 18 die in the first week of life, and the rest who make it through their teenage time develop complications and experience severe medical conditions.