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Secretariat‘s Nestor Serrano On Daughter’s Cerebral Palsy

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It was just a coincidence that Secretariat‘s Nestor Serrano was serving on the board of United Cerebral Palsy of New York City. Little did he know that years later, the contacts and friends he’d made would prove more valuable than ever when his own daughter was diagnosed with CP.

“It was devastating,” Serrano says of daughter Amelia‘s diagnosis more than four years ago. “When she was born, we immediately noticed something was wrong — she wasn’t crying, and was really quiet. The doctor said that sometimes happens, and she’d be fine.”

Unconvinced, Serrano joined a nurse as she performed standard tests on Amelia, and noticed she was “floppy.” After she started turning blue, “they told me they had to take her in,” Serrano recalls. “It was tough on that end, then especially tough having to come back and tell my wife that something was off.”

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Gavin Rossdale ‘Slides Away’ from Diaper Duty

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From park playdates to family outings, Gavin Rossdale is a hands-on dad to Kingston James McGregor, 4, and Zuma Nesta Rock, 2 — except when it comes to diaper duty.

“We have good people around us. If there’s no one there, I can do it, but otherwise I sort of slide away — I get very interested in my Blackberry at that point,” the Bush frontman, 44, shares in the November issue of Details.

“A friend once told me, ‘By the way, they never thank you for changing their diapers when they grow up, so don’t sweat it.’ I thought it was good advice.”
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