Yen's mother recalls--as if somehow she wronged her daughter--that Mei-ling couldn't stand steadily at the age of one and still couldn't walk at two. At the time they just thought she was developing slowly. It wasn't until she was three and four and still falling after taking just a few steps that they realized something was amiss and started taking her everywhere for treatment.
談及顏美玲的成長過程，顏媽媽語帶虧欠地說，美玲一歲多還站不穩，二歲多還不會走路，當時她只當作是發育較慢，直到三、四歲仍然走幾步就跌倒，才覺得不對勁，開始帶著她四處求醫。