Three candidates have put forth their names for consideration for a vacant seat on the Harrisonburg School Board — two former board members and one business owner.
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Their daughters’ rare disease brought two dads together. Now they’re fighting for early genetic testing in Washington By Nicole Brodeur, The Seattle Times
Published: February 23, 2021, 10:30am
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The two fathers had never met in person, but that didn’t matter. They knew each other well. The confusion, the worry, the frustration of being the father of a child who grows and learns and then, suddenly, regresses.
The vocabulary stalls. The seizures start, along with the vision problems. There are outbursts of anger. One daughter started to eat dirt.
Mike Jackson lucked out; he and his wife, Corin, found a neurologist who saw that their daughter, Evelyn, was missing developmental markers and suggested a free genetic test that could provide some answers.