At only 19 days old, swimmer and Georgia native McKenize Coan had already been given what is described as “a death sentence.”
After being diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta, doctors informed Coan’s parents that they didn’t expect her to live a long or comfortable life.
“And if I did,” the 28-year-old Clarkesville native said. “They basically laid out all the things that I would never be able to do. I would never hold my head up. I would never sit up. I would never stand, walk or crawl.”
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