Here, in her own words, actress Samantha Renke talks about what she's learned in life. The first words my parents heard when I was born were, ‘We’re sorry, there’s something wrong with your child.’ If the doctors had said, ‘Your child has osteogenesis imperfecta, but there’s treatment and many people live with it,’ that would have been more accurate.
As a child I knew I was ‘different’. I have an older sibling who is non-disabled, so I knew I couldn’t walk. I can’t walk because my bones can’t handle the strain.
I had multiple fractures from birth and have broken over 200 bones to this day. But despite my parents being told the prognosis wasn’t good and to just pray for me, they did a wonderful job and always treated me the same as my
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