This page was created by the family and friends of a Peruvian child, who suffers a strange disease call Adrenoleukodystrophy. It is linked to chromosome X (X-ALD).
Mateo Gabriel Gonzales was born on February 02, 2002 in Lima Peru, only son of David Gonzales Cadillo and Melisa Rodriguez Ramirez. During his first 7 years of life, he was a normal child, his development and restlessnesses were normal. He liked animals, paintings, play videos and play with his cousins. As every child, he has had many falls a cause of the never ending plays. But he cried a moment after that he continue playing. He was a dedicated, tidy, slightly stubborn child in school but definitely an excellent boy.
In 2008 Mateo began to fell rare symptoms, now her mother remembered that Mateo groaned of tingling in his legs between the months July and August .Then his worried mother taken him to the pediatrician who transferred to a specialist in this case to an Orthopedic surgeon, his diagnosis was: “His bones are normal It is a part of the growth”. On November, 2008 his motor function stars to decrease for example he exceeded the edge of his drawings and the quality of his drawings were different. To draw and to colour was a skill that Mateo had acquired from very small.
On February, 2009, after his seventh birthday, Mateo began to complain about pains in the eyes, his mother realized that his left eye was turning aside occasionally and she decides to take him to the pediatrician who transfers to the oculist. And this time the diagnosis was: “His vision is of 20 on 20 ".
