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26-year-old Zain Nadella, son of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella succumbs to Cerebral Palsy
Zain Nadella, son of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, died Monday morning, the company declared. He was 26 years old and born with cerebral palsy.
Hemant Singh – Mumbai Uncensored, 2nd March 2022
Cerebral palsy is a condition that impairs coordination of muscles, usually caused by damage to the brain prior to or at birth or during the first few years after birth when the brain is developing. Damage to the white matter of the brain can cause cerebral palsy before birth. More than 17 million people are living with cerebral palsy (CP) in the world.
Every year on October 6 World Cerebral Palsy Day (WCPD) is observed.
Microsoft told its management team in an email that Zain had passed away. The message asked managers to keep the family in their thoughts and prayers while providing space for them to grieve privately.
Since taking over as CEO in 2014, Satya has focused on designing products like AI, learning tools, and Eye control to better serve users with disabilities and referred to lessons he learned Parenting Zain. Last year, As part of Seattle Children’s Center for Integrative Brain Research, the Children’s Hospital, where Zain received much of his treatment, established the Zain Nadella Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurosciences with the Nadellas.
“Zain will be remembered for his eclectic taste in music, his bright sunny smile, and the immense joy he brought to his family and all those who loved him,” Children’s Hospital CEO Jeff Sperring Microsoft executives received the message he wrote to his Board of Directors
Flashback
Zain Nadella was born in 1996 with cerebral palsy. “I remember the year 1996 as a thrilling time. My wife, Anu, was 25 and I was 29. My career as an engineer was taking off, while she was building her career as an architect. We were far from our families in India, but settling into our new life together in the Seattle area. Even more exciting, however, was that Anu was pregnant with our first child. In the apartment we were renting next to the Microsoft campus, we spent months busily preparing for his arrival, decorating a nursery, putting plans in place for Anu to return to her career, envisioning how our weekends and holidays would change…. We were ready to add a new joy to our life,” Satya said in the blog
Original photo; https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/moment-forever-changed-our-lives-satya-nadella/
About the issues faced during the pregnancy of Anu, his wife, he wrote, “One night, during the thirty-sixth week of her pregnancy, Anu noticed that the baby was not moving as much as she was accustomed to. So we went to the emergency room of a local hospital in Bellevue. We thought it would be just a routine checkup, little more than new parent anxiety. I distinctly remember feeling annoyed by the wait times we experienced in the emergency room. But upon examination, the doctors were alarmed enough to order an emergency cesarean section. Zain was born at 11:29 p.m. on August 13, 1996, all of three pounds. He did not cry.”
“….. Little did I know then how profoundly our lives would change. Throughout the next couple of years, we learned more about the damage caused by in utero asphyxiation, and how Zain would require a wheelchair and be reliant on us because of severe cerebral palsy. I was devastated,” Satya told
The Motherly Love of Anu.
It is important to mention how Satya felt when zain was born in that condition and he didn’t hide his thoughts like others would and talked about his wife about how empathetic and caring she is, I think that’s why mothers are so close to their children no matter what. He wrote “To say that period was difficult is an understatement. One of the things I remember most clearly, however, is how Anu’s reaction to Zain’s birth was immediately so different from mine. For Anu, it was never about what this meant for her — it was always about what it meant for Zain and how we could best care for him. Rather than asking “why us?” she instinctually felt his pain before her own.Watching her in those first few days, weeks and beyond taught me a lot. Over time, Anu helped me understand that nothing had happened to me or her, but something had happened to Zain”