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"We were asking doctors, 'How long this will last, will she walk, will she be able to go to school?'" Lauren Zabezhinsky said.
MINNEAPOLIS — Leo and Lauren Zabezhinsky's joy of welcoming their new daughter, Jackie, was soon met with a jarring discovery: baby Jackie wasn't moving well and couldn't swallow.
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"Sometimes in life we all get dealt a hand that things happen unexpectedly," Leo Zabezhinsky said. "But it's not about what happens — it's about how you respond and how you react."
Jackie Zabezhinsky would spend two months at the NICU at Children's Minnesota and then underwent testing and treatment for nearly a year before doctors diagnosed her with myotonic dystrophy, a rare genetic muscle disease.
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