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Article: Waiting list: Help is long in coming for disabled Utahns
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2007
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OREM -- Katie Hilton isn't having a very good day. Her lunch,
administered through a tube in her belly, didn't agree with her,
causing the 3-year-old to throw up just minutes before a visitor
arrives at her Utah County home. She's uncomfortable and unhappy,
squirming and whimpering against her mother's chest.
Heidi Hilton tries to quiet her daughter, signing the name of a
reporter to the girl, who is deaf, while trying to steady the
child's upper body, over which Katie, who also has cerebral palsy,
has virtually no control.
The little girl's demeanor changes dramatically, however, when
the rest of the Hilton family gets home for the day. Her dark brown
eyes light up at the sight of her ...