Jimmy's 3 year old Boys
In July 1998, Robert Stone was a healthy 13-month-old baby. Then, suddenly, he wasn’t. He began having one-minute spells of muscle failure, such as abruptly dropping a toy or falling over. After a few days, that escalated into 10-minute episodes that affected muscles throughout his body. He spent weeks in the hospital until doctors ruled out everything they could test for and sent him home. By age 3, Robert was confined to a wheelchair and eating through a tube. He seemed to understand everything around him but was unable to speak. For 13 years, his parents, Roger and Jeneva Stone, spent thousands of dollars (even with insurance) taking him from one hospital to another, searching for a diagnosis. They carried a binder stuffed with reports from more than 100 diagnostic tests. Just four showed anything out of the ordinary, and no one knew how to interpret any of them.Then, in the summer of 2011, Jeneva heard about the Rare Genomics Institute, at the time a nascent nonprofit that sought to raise money to pay for sequencing the genes of children with mysterious diseases. RGI creates online fundraising campaigns for each child using the crowd-funding model most associated with Kickstarter. Crowd-funding works through Web pages that describe specific projects in need of money and solicit online donations—typically small contributions from family, friends, and friends of friends.There are many type of games that help kids to engage a better molding and help with their body problems such as with muscle movement, also games to develop the brain. In ProductExpert present ideas you can find gifts for girls or present ideas for boys as well and look for engaging toys that are fun for them to enjoy and also help their health issues and make an improvement in their development.Read more at...Johns Hopkins Magazine, Winter 2012.