The Miller Family

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Holly Prey Miller Family The Miller family is a family unlike any other secluded in the small town of Saldotna, Alaska. In 1989, Fritz and Cindy Miller learned that their infant twin daughters, Mariyah and Michelle, were both diagnosed with Type II Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Type II Spinal Muscular Atrophy is a genetic disorder that causes damage and weakness to the muscles. This disability has a reputation of greatly limiting lifestyle normalcy because the affected are reduced to a wheelchair and suffer from aspiration, muscle and tendon contractions, scoliosis and heart failure. Understanding that Mariyah and Michelle would be confined to wheelchairs for the rest of their lives and wanting their daughters to feel freedom in their home,…show more content…
The individuals of smaller towns and communities are known to band together and care for one another as a large, extended family unit. The rural seclusion of the Alaskan environment protects the Miller family from the prejudicial ignorance of the “outside world” while providing them with a small and consistent population sample where the members have known (or have known of) the family and are sympathetic to their tribulations. History Beyond their control, the Miller family home burnt to the ground when the twins were only toddlers. This difficult time in the family’s history ended up providing them with an opportunity to better build their lives for their future. Instead of allowing the tragedy of their living situation to cripple their family, the Miller’s rebuilt their home right on top of the debris of the last one. This time, though, the Miller’s didn’t build just another house; they built an extravagant, spacious, completely wheel-chair accessible home where their handicapped daughters never suffered from physical restrictions.…show more content…
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