Laura Posada And Her Son

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Seeing her son show off as an actor in school plays today never fails to amaze Laura Posada. "He is quiet, but suddenly you see him on stage acting and you say: 'Where did he come from?'" Says the Puerto Rican life coach of Jorge, 18, who has won acting awards and sings in the chorus of his college in Miami. "He is brilliant," adds his father, former Puerto Rican baseball player Jorge Posada. "I am very proud of him."

Reasons are superfluous. Jorge Jr. graduated from high school this year and will enter the University of Miami in August. Although he is currently a healthy teenager with a girlfriend and friends, his parents remember how he battled craniosynostosis, a congenital disease that was diagnosed at birth. "At first, when they give you the news, it's horrible because you say, 'Why is this happening to me?' You think so many negative things, "admits Laura, 46. “You feel like you're a failure because you had a child who was born with a condition. You blame yourself. " To which she adds: "Then you think: 'If God is sending me this, it is because maybe I can make a difference.'"

With this approach, he dedicated himself to caring for his son, who had to undergo nine operations to treat his cranial malformation. The first was at 9 months and subsequently had to enter the operating room once a year. "It was difficult to be with a child who is crying, suffering all the time, you do not know if she is going to die," she admits. "It is very hard. I said: 'If he is going to live nine months, let them be the best he will have.' When he survived the first surgery, which [lasted] 14 hours, it was a relief. But here comes the bad news that this was going to be the first of many surgeries."

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