“Rick and his wife Karen accept taken their babe Bella to the hospital. The ancestors requests prayers and aloofness as Bella works her way to recovery,” attack communications administrator Hogan Gidley said in a statement.
Bella suffers from the abiogenetic ataxia accepted as Trisomy 18, which generally after-effects in the afterlife of a child. She had been ailing briefly in January with pneumonia.
Santorum, abaft Mitt Romney in the chase for the Republican nomination, had planned to booty time off from the attack this week. He said Friday he would resume activities on Monday. His home accompaniment of Pennsylvania holds its presidential primary on April 24.
Bella was built-in in 2008 with Trisomy 18, a attenuate birthmark in which a babyish has an added chromosome that after-effects in aberrant development of the academician and above organs. Only one in 10 babies built-in with the ataxia survive the aboriginal year of life.
Santorum was adulatory the Easter anniversary weekend with his ancestors in Virginia back Bella, 3, was taken to the hospital. Earlier this year, Bella was ailing with pneumonia, bidding Santorum to leave the attack aisle afore the Florida primary.
Bella Santorum was aftermost ailing in January with a case of pneumonia. Santorum larboard the attack aisle aloof canicule afore the Florida primary to be with his ancestors abreast his home in Virginia. She recovered aural a few canicule in what Santorum alleged a “miraculous turnaround.”
