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Now streaming on: Extraordinary Measures is an ordinary film with ordinary characters in a story too big for it. Life has been reduced to a Lifetime movie. The story, based on fact, is compelling: Two sick children have no more than a year to live when their father determines to seek out a maverick scientist who may have a cure. This is Lorenzo s Oil with a different disease, Pompe disease, although it fudges the facts to create a better story.
The film centers on two dying children, ages 9 and 7. In real life, most children with Pompe die before age 2, and those in the real story were 15 months and 7 days old when they got sick, and 5 and 4 years old when they began treatment.
As the weekend begins I would like to turn from the drama in DC... Many Americans are having a hard time with the social distancing and such...sadly their is a mental illness that is brought on by the virus and precautions.. There's evidence of more harm done by COVID-19: new-onset psychosis. Patients who have had…
A little more than eight years have passed since Gastonia s Sam Michaels received a heart transplant at Duke University Medical Center.
But Michaels, 75, still gives thanks every day for the gift of the heart that has allowed him to keep working, keep loving his wife, keep serving as father to his sons and as Paw Paw to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
A native of Ranlo and a 1963 graduate of the old Holbrook High School in Lowell, Michaels also thinks each day of Adam, the 36-year-old man whose heart he received, and of Adam s mother, Kathy, who decided to allow her son s heart to go on beating.