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And i said something s not right. he couldn t understand simple language, which he was able to before, at least direction, a little bit of direction. so some slippage, some falling back. yeah, i did. dr. friedman, he said, jalen s lead numbers are very high. yeah. well, at that point in philadelphia, a lead level of 10 for children was acceptable. mm-hmm. and his was 29. wow. just to be clear, the city of philly at that point, eating paint chips, they knew that was a cause of lead poisoning. they clearly knew. but they were not spreading the message. they were not spreading the message, which should be as important as any serious disease. mm-hmm. and the message itself is confusing. the national threshold for public intervention is 5. philly s threshold is twice as high at 10. jalen s level was 29. i think he snuck some juice. ....
Happens to me too sometimes. you got to let the normal rules go out the window when company comes over. when the doctors explained this is we can help him with speech, occupational therapy. the word poisoning is never used. and the word delay is used a lot. a delay implies that eventually things will be caught up. yes. you ll lulled into a false sense of hope because this is permanent. jalen a a great 10-year-old kid. he s friendly. he s funny. he knows how to sneak juice when company comes over, but the cognitive delays he s experiencing put him behind his peers. we don t know what s going to happen with jalen. we don t know if jalen is going to be able to get a job. we re still at two-step instructions. when we get to step number two, he s lost. so we have to come back to step number one again. only in the last year, he understood the planets. ....
It s just been hard. it s one of those things as a parent that you enjoy watching your kid sort of hit new levels and sort of like you can see your kids open up and, oh, yesterday they couldn t do that, and jalen is not opening in the same way at the same speed. it s not a stomach bug that s going to go out of your system. it s permanent. than just the business you came for. let s make the most of what we ve been given whether that s getting a taste of where you are. let s get to living .or bringing some of that flavor back home. that s room for possibility. let s get to living here are even more reasons to join t-mobile. 1. do you like netflix? sure you do. that s why it s on us. 2. unlimited data. ....
nice. i like that. that s where my best ideas come out of, my head. this is averill and her son jalen. jalen is one of 2,700 kids affected every year by lead poisoning in philly. thank you. i m going to take this home, okay? what do you think? you can take the picture but not the frame. i like that. i have to leave the frame is too expensive. no, that s all right. i ll leave it here. thank you. averill invited me into her home to talk about jalen s lead poisoning. while she s been open with jalen about his condition, he doesn t fully understand it. he s way more interested in watching his cartoons than talk f ing to this weirdo dude on televisi television. while she tried to stop her kids from eating things he shouldn t eat, averill didn t know those chips were made from lead, and that lead could lead to permanent lead. it s kind of a backwards and forwards, and he wasn t doing that. and i took him to the doctors, ....