You often hear about children with rare afflictions that can’t be helped. Here are some young people who beat the odds:
- A 2-year-old with Shone's syndrome, which affects how valves in the heart work. As the Daytona Beach News-Journalreports, a pediatric heart surgeon finally found a way to repair his heart.
- A boy, now 4, who became legally blind when he was 21 /2 because of a retinal degenerative disease. But it’s the type that responds to gene therapy, so that child is now enrolled in a clinical trial that could bring his sight back, the Gainesville Sun reports.
- Teen siblings who both had Alstrom Syndrome, a condition only 800 other people in the world have. The brother died waiting for a heart transplant, but the sister lived long enough to get a new heart and a lung, the Gainesville Sun reports.