Zach gateley
B.1
10/13/14
Life of Zach Being Zach has its advantages and its disadvantages. Zach was born 6 weeks early his body was not fully developed. When he came out of his mother he had a big bubble where his belly button is and it had some of his intestines in it among other parts. Once he was born he had to get surgery right away. He was in urgent car for 2 weeks his parents could only visit him 2 minutes every day because the doctors said they can bring illnesses in that can kill me.
After I got out of urgent care the doctors said Zach has a rare syndrome called beckwith-wiedemann syndrome. This syndrome is an over growth syndrome, now before you say that’s why he is so tall it’s not true. Zach wasn’t supposed to be this tall at a young age. He was going to be tall no matter what. But with the syndrome affected his eleventh chromosome. That is his muscle chromosome. It effected everything that involves muscle and makes it stronger and bigger. Zach got lucky that it only affected that. But not as lucky as most people are.
He still went to the hospital every month for checkups and stuff like that. When Zach turn 2 his tongue grow ginormous so big actual it couldn’t even fit in his mouth. His parents were told if anything was to happen like this they have to let it be until my body grows into it. But Zach’s tongue was getting so big and strong it was pushing his jaw out words. His parents were worried so they took to the hospital. The doctors didn’t know what to do because they needed to wait till his body grows. But more they waited the more Zach was in. the doctor decided to just cut his tongue and shave the side of it to make it smaller.
Unfortanly for Zach the size of the tongue that they cut was how big his tongue was going to be for the rest of his life. So when they cut his tongue the amount that is left was the amount he is going to have for the rest of his life. His parents didn’t know what to say. They were warned that I have a syndrome but they didn’t know it was going to be this hard. His parents decided to step up there game. Throughout elementary school it was a challenge. Zach’s liver and kidneys grow faster than everything else. He had to drink water twice as much as usually but sense he couldn’t control his water he had to pee a lot. Zach had this problem till the age 9. Also sense Zach had an abnormal tongue he had speech therapy all through elementary school.
Sense Zach’s muscle mass was getting so big his body had to keep up with it so he grew like an inch every two months. Sense Zach was developing so fast he always got put in groups with older guys then him. Because of this he was never on a level with guys his age or the guys older then him. Being in 4th grade and being in groups with 5th and 6th grades was hard to Zach. He was a shy kid he felt very self-concise. He got bullied every day because he didn’t fit in and he couldn’t fight back because he was stronger then everyone so he will hurt them really bad.
Zach always had to keep his anger down because he got blamed for everything because he was the tall guy that stands out. Once Zach got out of elementary school he didn’t want to go back to school. His parents felt really bad but couldn’t do anything about because they knew it was going to be better. First day of middle school Zach didn’t go he locked himself in his room and didn’t come out till night time. His parents sat down with Zach when he came out of his room and said “we know you don’t want to go to school but you have to, you will get away from them if you stay in school”. Zach was speech less he thought his parents understood what he was going through but he thought wrong.
Zach went to school the next day but showed up late and his first period of the day was P.E he was scared. He walked into the front door of the gym and when it close it made a loud noise. Everyone looked at him and he stopped and turned bright red. His teacher called him over and said sit on top the bleachers with the 7th graders. When he got on top and sat down a kid punched him in the leg and said what’s up faggot. He didn’t take it anymore so got up and punched him in the face and knocked him out. He got sent to the dean’s office and went home for the day. Zach has always been secret about everything so his parents never knew the real stories of anything.