A mum who was told she was “cruel” for having her son after he was born with a rare severe cleft lip says it has never held him back.
Zac Coates, now 18, was born with Tessier cleft lip and palate – a condition which is caused by facial tissues not joining up properly during development.
It left Zac with severe facial disfigurement on his ride side and he had no eye lid which left him blind in his right eye.
Mum, Joanne Lythgoe-Frank, 58, was “shocked” when she first saw her son but raised him to accept his differences.
Zac Coates, now 18, was born with Tessier cleft lip and palate – a condition which is caused by facial tissues not joining up properly during development.
It left Zac with severe facial disfigurement on his ride side and he had no eye lid which left him blind in his right eye.
Mum, Joanne Lythgoe-Frank, 58, was “shocked” when she first saw her son but raised him to accept his differences.
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00:22 Now we do get quite a few trolls in our lives, and we've had horrible things said about,
00:27 um, Zach, what's happened to your son's face, which is not horrible as such, because we
00:32 don't mind people asking. But, um, things like, who's, who's run over your son's face,
00:38 blah de blah de blah, not very good at all. But from Zach's point of view, how does that
00:42 make you feel?
00:43 It's really bothering me. It just doesn't bother me at all. I deal with it quite well.
00:50 I'm a confident young lad.
00:52 [Laughs]
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