About four months ago, 23-year-old UK mom Stephanie Rossiter and fiancé Steven Davison were the parents of a happy, healthy baby boy who never showed any signs of sickness.
However, on April 14th of the past year, their now 21-month-old son Taylor suddenly went limp and lost all color in his skin. Stephanie immediately called for an ambulance and her normally healthy baby boy was rushed to the emergency room. “He was taken straight to the resuscitation ward. If patients are there it is really life or death. We were so distraught – we thought we were going to lose him,” Stephanie said.
Doctors took blood tests, MRIs, and electromyograms, but were completely stumped when every test came back normal. However, as doctors struggled to find a diagnosis, Taylor started getting nosebleeds, had trouble breathing, and dropped to just under 7 pounds, which is less than he weighed at birth.
Eventually, doctors determined Taylor was suffering from Leigh Syndrome, which is a mitochondrial disease that causes the organs to shut down one by one and can lead to death in just two months. “When we were told it could be mitochondrial disease and that it was incurable our hearts broke – we were absolutely devastated,” Stephanie said. “The next month was hell. We thought we were going to lose our little boy. I completely shut down. I couldn’t talk to anyone about what was going on because I couldn’t bring myself to say the words.”
“The love you feel for your child is like nothing else so to hear they might die young after a painful life and bound to a wheelchair – and you can’t do anything about it – is the worst thing imaginable. I started to think about all the things I wanted for him like going to university, meeting a girl, walking down the aisle and having kids of his own and I couldn’t bear knowing he might never have any of that.”
Taylor’s blood was sent off for an official diagnosis, and in the meantime, doctors started him on a variety of vitamins to help with symptoms, however, within a few days everyone was stunned to see him walking again, and everyone started calling him ‘mystery boy’.
Finally, his test results came back, and not only did he not have Leigh Syndrome, but Taylor really was just deficient in the vitamin biotin, which was one of the vitamins he had recently started taking for the mitochondrial disease. “To say we’re over the moon would be an understatement,” Stephanie said. “From the day he started the vitamin treatments he got his smile back and so have we. We never thought we’d see him happy or walking again.”
“Steven and I don’t have a ‘mystery boy’ we have a ‘miracle boy’. Our lives have been completely turned upside down and then turned back over again in just a few months. It’s been a whirlwind … We’ve gone from having tears streaming down our faces every time we looked at him, to cherishing every single moment.”
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Child Diagnosed With Fatal Disease Really Just Low On Vitamins is an article from: LifeDaily