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Bone Marrow Transplant Hanging Over Our Heads

Posted by Melissa | Filed under Gaucher Disease, Thoughts From Mom, Treatment

The whole bone marrow process is out of our hands. It’s up to the doctors to make things happen.
But that doesn’t really stop people from asking us about what’s going on with the whole thing. And to be completely honest, ever since we found out our other son was not a match for Kyle, we’ve [...]

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Time To Get Kyle Some More Help

Posted by Melissa | Filed under Appointments, Gaucher Disease

It’s no secret that Kyle is developmentally behind, and with his first birthday fast approaching, I think it’s time to get him some real help so he can get on track.
When I spoke to one of Kyle’s specialists about physical therapy and the like for Kyle, he said we could look into that if we [...]

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Researchers believe they have found genetic cause for Parkinson’s disease

Posted by Melissa | Filed under Research

Article Source: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20090513p2a00m0na010000c.html
A team led by Shoji Tsuji of the University of Tokyo, and Tatsushi Toda of Kobe University discovered that those with a mutation in a gene called GBA are 28 times more likely to contract Parkinson’s disease. They now hope to use their finding to explain exactly how the disease is caused, and [...]

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