{"id":16770,"date":"2022-11-17T04:03:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/17\/disability-and-the-cost-of-living-its-our-sons-life\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T04:03:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:03:17","slug":"disability-and-the-cost-of-living-its-our-sons-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=16770","title":{"rendered":"Disability and the cost of living: &#8216;It&#8217;s our son&#8217;s life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Six-year-old Cohen from Basingstoke survives off the machines in his home and his mum&#8217;s energy bills could rise to more than \u00a33,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Cohen has DiGeorge syndrome and 15q11.2 genetic deletions which means he can&#8217;t walk, talk or digest food properly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Lauren, Cohen&#8217;s mum said: &#8220;The cost of living crisis, for most people, it\u2019s &#8216;Oh we just won\u2019t go on holiday this year&#8217; but for us it\u2019s our son\u2019s life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Gem O&#8217;Reilly<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-63602043?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Six-year-old Cohen from Basingstoke survives off the machines in his home and his mum&#8217;s energy bills could rise to more than \u00a33,000 a year. Cohen has DiGeorge syndrome and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}