{"id":163645,"date":"2017-03-13T08:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=163645"},"modified":"2017-03-13T08:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:06:16","slug":"born-without-jaw-teen-cant-speak-wrote-first-rap-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/born-without-jaw-teen-cant-speak-wrote-first-rap-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Born without a jaw, this teen can’t speak, but he wrote his first rap song"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I mean every day that we wake up we’re lucky that he’s here,” Tarah explained in a video<\/a> about her son Isaiah. Born with no way for oxygen to get into his body, Isaiah’s parents were told that they needed to make a choice to fight for his life or let him die. They chose life for their son.<\/p>\n

“Everything in his body is a mirror image, flipped backwards. His stomach, his heart, I mean everything,” said Tarah. “Isaiah was born with no jaw, so right at birth we had to make a decision whether we wanted to save him and take the chance. I was told that he wasn’t going to walk, talk, pretty much be bed bound.”<\/p>\n