Defying Doctor's Expectations, Man With Down Syndrome Plans To Celebrate His 72nd Birthday

Aug 27, 2018 by apost team

An Englishman living with Down syndrome has beat statistics by living to the age of 72.

What Is Down syndrome? It's a syndrome that affects an individual’s mental capacity; it can also affect the heart. This is a chromosome malfunction that affects thousands of people around the world each year. Doctors can tell if a baby has Down syndrome when it is still developing in the womb.

Generally, parents of children with Down syndrome are told that their children will not make it past their 50th birthday. An individual with Down syndrome can live a full life. He can graduate from school, and perform a number of jobs.

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An individual who has beaten the odds, Terry Culley is a resident of the United Kingdom. He has Down syndrome, and he is going to celebrate his 72nd birthday. Culley is one of the oldest people in England who has this syndrome and is still living. Not only is it surprising that he has lived to be 72 years old, but at various times throughout his life, his parents were told that he was going to pass away. Culley had an illness when he was born that made his parents believe that he was only going to live until he was 14.

Now, at the age of 72, he has managed to outlive even his own parents.

Terry Culley is able to receive care from a loving facility. Culley has lived in the same care facility for the last 30 years. The caretakers at this facility see Culley as a member of their own family, and they take care of him with attention and love.

Culley had an episode of pneumonia and sepsis earlier in the year, and the caretakers at his facility were worried that he was not going to recover. After a three-month stay in the hospital and a long recuperation, Culley was back to his old self again. The hospital was surprised to see how well he recovered, and his health is back to normal

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