It could be you
By Lindsay Nicholson (THE GUARDIAN, 27/05/06):
With impressive dignity Nicola Smith described the fate that has befallen her family as like a lottery: "For a long time our family have been lucky but that luck just ran out." Nicola and her husband, Scott, recently learned their middle son, Callum, aged six, is suffering from the genetic disease ALD, which attacks the brain and central nervous system and usually results in death within two years of diagnosis. Not only that, but tests on their other two boys - Connor, eight, and Jack, five - showed that they too carry the ALD gene.… Seguir leyendo »