{"id":85602,"date":"2026-02-26T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85602"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:35:05","slug":"distraught-detroit-mother-faces-losing-second-son-to-ultra-rare-disease-affecting-1-in-10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/26\/distraught-detroit-mother-faces-losing-second-son-to-ultra-rare-disease-affecting-1-in-10-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Distraught Detroit mother faces losing second son to ultra-rare disease affecting 1 in 10 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1X0n9P.img?w=534&amp;h=318&amp;m=6&amp;x=276&amp;y=96&amp;s=121&amp;d=121\" alt=\"Azeza Kasham's 16-year-old son Gehad was diagnosed with Lafora 10 days after his brother Haitham Breadiy passed away from the disease in October of 2019\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An ultra-rare disease is once again devastating a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/michigan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Michigan<\/a> mother who says she has already lost one son to the illness and is now preparing to lose another.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/distraught-detroit-mother-faces-losing-second-son-to-ultra-rare-disease-affecting-1-in-10-million\/ar-AA1X0pUS?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69a00819814b4c51a974dbe6931a158b&amp;ei=247\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>An ultra-rare disease is once again devastating a\u00a0Michigan mother who says she has already lost one son to the illness and is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Gehad-with-Lafora.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85604,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85602\/revisions\/85604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}