Thursday, January 22, 2009

Family tragedy

We have had a truly tragic event on the May side of the family. Michael's cousin Shannon's 4 year-old boy Cole had a bad seizure earlier this week. He was taken to the hospital and remained unresponsive since admission. He was found to have a severe brain injury and his family had to make the decision to withdraw life support. Please pray for Cole, Shannon and Jesse, the Obriens and the extended May family as they/we grieve the loss of one of our precious children.

Cole had an illness which runs in the May family known as X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. It is a terrible neurologic illness, which unfortunatlely has little for effective treatment. You can learn more about it here:

http://www.ulf.org/types/XALD.html

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