{"id":30644,"date":"2026-07-07T14:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30644"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:54:48","slug":"mom-races-to-save-her-5-year-old-son-with-a-2m-treatment-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30644","title":{"rendered":"Mom Races to Save Her 5-Year-Old Son With a $2M Treatment \u2764\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"36\" data-end=\"90\"><strong data-start=\"36\" data-end=\"90\">A Mother Is Racing Against Time to Save Her Son \ud83d\udc94<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"335\">Tammy McDaid thought she was raising a child with autism. But after years of searching for answers, she received a heartbreaking diagnosis: her 5-year-old son Tate has Sanfilippo syndrome Type A, a rare condition known as \u201cchildhood dementia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"337\" data-end=\"441\">The disease slowly takes away children\u2019s abilities \u2014 walking, eating, speaking, and eventually movement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"443\" data-end=\"631\">But now, a groundbreaking gene therapy in the U.S. has given Tammy new hope. Children in trials have continued developing years later, giving families a chance they never thought possible.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"633\" data-end=\"656\">The only problem? Time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"658\" data-end=\"767\">The treatment could cost millions, and Tate may not be able to wait years for access through normal channels.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"769\" data-end=\"809\">\u201cI\u2019m fighting against time,\u201d Tammy says.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"811\" data-end=\"882\">She is determined to get her son the chance at a future he deserves. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mother Is Racing Against Time to Save Her Son \ud83d\udc94 Tammy McDaid thought she was raising a child with autism. But after years of searching for answers, she received a heartbreaking diagnosis: her 5-year-old son Tate has Sanfilippo syndrome Type A, a rare condition known as \u201cchildhood dementia.\u201d The disease slowly takes away children\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30644\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Mom Races to Save Her 5-Year-Old Son With a $2M Treatment \u2764\ufe0f&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30646,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644\/revisions\/30646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}