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Enduring love
This is the story of the Price family – John, Karen, Kodi and Kristina.
John and Karen adopted the twins, learning shortly after their birth that they had tested positive for drugs, including cocaine and alcohol, and faced serious medical issues.
They were born several weeks prematurely. to an Alaskan woman in February 1996, and the road was rocky from the start. Doctors suspected that Kodi was severely autistic, and feared that the babies' stiff muscles were an early indication of cerebral palsy. The Prices learned therapy techniques and Karen, in particular, dove into the work.
She spent countless hours over the next few years working with the babies, and the results were incredible. Within a few years, the children's development had improved, and they were catching up with their peers. They began attending the Fauquier County Head Start program, and today appear to be happy seventh graders with no sign of the trauma they suffered upon entering this world.
But Karen's work with the children is only the beginning of this story.
Soon after the kids started school, Karen spun into a downward spiral of depression and mental illness. Induced by a traumatic event that she has yet to remember, Karen was heavily medicated, under psychiatric care, and remained homebound and mostly “in bed” for more than seven years, she said recently from her Warrenton Lakes home.
For the rest of the story, pick up a copy of this week's Fauquier Times-Democrat Weekend.
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