For Battle Creek’s Jenise Furman, her husband Tracy, their three biological kids and their five adopted children, life in recent years has not been easy and it hasn’t been fair. And now, it just hurts because Christian faces a grim future, reports the Battle Creek Enquirer. Three years ago, Christian was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disease that affects 1 in 3,500 young boys predominantly and which will, eventually, kill him because there is no cure.
Excerpt: Every six months they take Christian to the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, for physical therapy and for Christian to be part of clinical studies that, maybe one day will lead to a cure. "There’s hope," Jenise said. "But it takes money."
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Source: Battle Creek Enquirer
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