Sent: Monday, July 01, 2019 9:51 AM
Subject: The Kylie Family
Good Morning,
My name is Kylie.. We have three beautiful children and our newest addition Fynn, age 5.5 months old. He is the main reason we are emailing you, desperate for help. I need to give you so much background information on us and our family to help you, but for now I will tell you what is going on.
I took Fynn to A.I. Dupont in Wilmington, Delaware when he was 8 weeks of age {March 13th}. He was post- frenulectomy after presenting fussiness, unwillingness to eat and spots on his body. He was born at 10 lbs 6oz at 37 weeks gestation due to my type 1 diabetes. He was in the NICU for ten days trying to stabilize his sugars, so even several weeks after… I worried about his sugars from now eats enough. It turned out he had para influenza, but to ensure his health was top notch the doctors asked to do xrays and ultrasound. I absolutely agreed, because I’m his mom and wanted to make sure nothing more was going on.
March 13th was the darkest day of my life. On my new little 8 week old baby, they found 6 healing fractured ribs, that are postolateral in location. SIX. How does this even happen? We asked. A resounding “N-A-T” diagnoses was made, despite the fact that they were able to date one to birth “possibly”. They also found a 4mm extra axial hemorrhage on my son’s high right partial region. Again, the diagnoses was “blunt force trauma.” We had him examined thoroughly, including retinal specialists, a 3 hour full body xray including a cat scan, etc. There were no other injuries except the 4mm bleed. Nothing. AND leading up until that point, we had a doctor or nurse with their hands on him almost every single week from the day he came home from the NICU. Dupont insisted the fractures were in multiple stages of healing and that our son was a very abused little boy. Problem is… that is the furthest thing from the truth. Our son has never experienced an ounce of pain in our arms. NEVER. We also have no previous involvement with the police, no history with CPS, no history of drug or alcohol abuse, no violence history and I am a professional portrait photographer of ten years who specializes in newborns and small children. We are literally a normal middle class family loving our children, and for us to be indicated for something like this is devastating. Even worse, my mother has worked for Social Services as an In Home Social Worker for 23 years.The police are still investigating, but I’m worried they are going to further injure our family for something my husband and I did not do.
So we took him to CHOP for a 2nd opinion. They concluded that his fractures appeared to be in a similar stage of healing, and appear to be acute to subacute. Completely different than what Dupont was saying. While visiting a 2nd time, this instance at the Metabolic Bone dept {Dr. Edna Mancilla’s office}, they took blood to HOPEFULLY get us a T1 Osteogenesis Imperfecta diagnoses.
My main issue is that no one around hear acknowledges that Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets is a real thing. They said it’s no real and made up? How can this be when so many people have found this to be the problem with their child? My mother’s side is all Vitamin D deficient. I am severely low at times. I found some blood work from 2013 while going through infertility that my Vitamin D was 21 on a range reference of 30 – 100 ng/ml. My mother does not make enamel on her teeth. She also has to take Vitamin D supplements. Her mom is also deficient. Everyone is failing to recognize that this is a real problem and it HAS to be the reason for my son’s fractured ribs. So I researched and found a story about a mom similar to our story, who Dr. Holick helped.
We need this same help. And I’d beg for it at this point. My heart is so broken and we have no answers for CPS or the police. We are ready to purchase a plane ticket from Maryland to you at the drop of a hat if you could get us in when Dr. Holick comes back. We are begging for your help to keep our family together and to make sure Fynn has the answers that he deserves more than anything.
Thank you so so much for reading. You can reach myself at the number below my signature <3 I cannot wait to hear back from you all.
Kylie
Dr. Holick’s Evaluation Kylie & Her Family
I saw Kylie, her husband, 3 children and her mother in my Ehlers Danlos Clinical Research Program. Based on the medical histories and physical exam findings I concluded that both Kylie and her mother had Ehlers Danlos syndrome hypermobility. An evaluation of Flynn demonstrated that he had frontal bossing blue sclerae, doughy textured skin with increased elasticity and marked joint hypermobility. He also had a history of flushing without provocation and bruises easily. I concluded that Flynn likely acquired the autosomal dominant genetic disorder, Ehlers Danlos syndrome hypermobility type, from his mother. This helped explain his joint clicking, easy bruisability and flushing without provocation due to mast cell hypersensitivity. This genetic disorder is well documented to cause skeletal fragility. I explained in my expert report that the 6 rib fractures that were observed in Flynn were likely caused by his skeletal fragility associated with Ehlers Danlos syndrome hypermobility type and resulted from normal handling. I found no evidence in the medical record for fractures being caused by nonaccidental trauma. I provided an expert report explaining my findings. Thankfully, as you will read in the letter from Kylie, she and her husband were successful in having their children returned to them.
Please see the letters from the parents as to what they experienced as a result of to being falsely accused child abuse and how I helped them be reunited with their child in ‘Letters from Parents Who Dr. Holick helped’.