Remember David the "bubble boy" that died years ago in Houston, grandson is being treated with infusion therapy developed by boys death

I would appreciate all prayers and best wishes for our two year old grandson. In the scheme of things, nothing else compares to having one’s health and wanting the best out of life for our children and grandchildren. Our youngest grandson, A.P., has a immune disease so he catches whatever anyone else might have whenever he is around other people (anyone recall David the “bubble boy” that died in Houston, Tx. Years ago)? This is immune disease is dangerous and a potentially lethal situation. A.P. has literally been to the Drs office (or e.r.’ s) every week since March of last year. The doctors were all puzzled why he looked so healthy yet, was sick week after week after week. Further medical testing though finally discovered that A.P. has an immune deficiency disorder.

There is a treatment for A.P.'s immune deficiency now and it was developed because of a boy, David Vetter, known commonly as David the “bubble boy”. (David Phillip Vetter (September 21, 1971 – February 22, 1984)[1] was a prominent sufferer of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a hereditary disease which dramatically weakens the immune system. Individuals born with SCID are abnormally susceptible to infections, and exposure to typically innocuous pathogens can be fatal. Vetter was referred to as “David, the bubble boy” by the media. Vetter’s surname was not revealed to the general public until 10 years after his death in order to preserve his family’s privacy.)

Anyways, A.P. doesn’t have the exact same immune deficiency as David Vetter did but has a very similar one. Our daughter discovered there was an organization for parents of children with this same immune disorder A.P. has. While talking with a spokesperson at this organization, our daughter discovered after David Vetter died, his mother Carol Ann Vetter wanted other children born with an immune disease to have a chance to live a normal life. Thus, she allowed researchers to take some of her son David’s blood and researchers then developed an infusion treatment consisting of over 10,000 different people’s blood plasma, with antigens added into the plasma, to treat children like our grandson A.P. is now getting in his infusion therapy. This infusion (developed after David Vetter’s death) is given to A.P. at a Children’s hospital once a month ![enter image description here][1].

We are so grateful to this Vetter family we have never met. Through their tragedy after losing their sons life, a treatment was developed that gives our grandson a chance to , hopefully, now to live a normal life.
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Anyways, as you can imagine, this infusion treatment is extremely expensive but more importantly, emotionally it’s hard on his parents as well as all of us to watch A.P. go through all of this. I am only asking for your prayers that this infusion therapy treatment will be a total success…the number the dr. looks for in his blood test did came up this month so we are hopeful that his body will one day start making the necessary antigens to go fight off infections like a normal person’s blood can. However, the dr. has told our daughter that their son A.P. might have to get these infusions for the rest of his life, if he doesn’t start making the antigens to fight off illnesses and pathogens that he will be exposed to.

We are believing and asking for a miracle for this sweet child and I ask those of you so inclined to do so to please pray for our little grandson too. Thanks to all of you who read this thread about our grandson A.P. , regarding his current medical fight to hopefully, one day live a normal life.