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Alyce and the pregnancy test

Alyce and the pregnancy test

Alyce Nelligan is used to being a trailblazer. Born with minicore myopathy, a rare muscle disease, she was the first kid at her primary school in a wheelchair, and the first person with a physical disability to graduate from her high school in Toowoomba, Queensland. She’s also used to being told what she is and isn’t capable of achieving. But Alyce, hasn’t met a barrier she hasn’t been able to smash through. Until now. A shock pregnancy discovery turns into the fight of her life – will her doctors, and her body, allow her have this baby?

Days Like These · Australian Broadcasting Corporation

March 8, 202225m 30s

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Show Notes

Alyce Nelligan is used to being a trailblazer.  

Born with minicore myopathy, a rare muscle disease, she was the first kid at her primary school in a wheelchair, and the first person with a physical disability to graduate from her high school in Toowoomba, Queensland.  

She’s also used to being told what she is and isn’t capable of achieving.  But Alyce, hasn’t met a barrier she hasn’t been able to smash through.  Until now.  

A shock pregnancy discovery turns into the fight of her life – will her doctors, and her body, allow her have this baby? 

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