Relentlessly Resilient Podcast

Mother Laura Ward on trusting her intuition and learning to advocate for her sick infant sons


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Laura and Trevor Ward knew something was wrong with their firstborn son early in his life, but doctors thought it was first-time parent jitters. They learned to advocate for their child and themselves, finally receiving a diagnosis and treatment for a rare genetic disorder, Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency or GAMPT. Because they had learned to advocate for their older child’s health, when their second son fell ill and knowing it was not GAMPT due to newly imposed newborn screenings, they fought for his own diagnosis of Infant Botulism. Laura Ward joins this episode of Relentlessly Resilient to share her story of how she learned to trust her mother’s instinct through her sons’ illness, stay at Primary Children’s Hospital, diagnosis, and treatment.
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