I kept thinking: ‘is my son going to die when he is 11?’
Mother of nine-year-old with rare genetic disorder on diagnosis – and living positively
Nine-year-old Karl Swaine from Lucan, Dublin, has Hunter syndrome, a rare degenerative genetic disorder that prevents his body from breaking down sugar molecules. There are only about 2,000 cases of the disorder worldwide.
“All I kept thinking was ‘is my son going to die when he is 11?’.” Sharon Byrne remembers the fear she felt when she heard her son’s diagnosis of a rare degenerative genetic disorder when he was just two years old.