George Thomson
Birth date – February 18th, 2004
Our Website - www.weegeorgie.co.uk

I was born on the 18th of February 2004. I made my Mummy and Daddy extremely happy. I progressed very well until it came to sitting up, I was slightly late and I didn't sit independently until I was 9 months old. My Mummy and Daddy didn't worry too much as I was pulling myself up on the furniture and walking around it!

I decided to try to walk by myself at 11 months old although I seemed to spend more time on my bottom than my feet! Mummy said this was ok, she said that this happened to all babies, so I decided to keep on trying.

By the time I was 18 months old I was still spending a lot of time on my bottom. This made Mummy and Daddy worried so they took me to see a nice lady that they called a health visitor. The Health visitor decided to send me to see a Physiotherapist who in turn sent to me to see a Pediatrician that specialized in muscles. I had lots of tests done here which all came back clear so they decided to send me for 4 months of physiotherapy to see if this would help me. Shortly after this I started to be sick several times per day so Mummy and Daddy took me to see another doctor who decided to send me to have two more tests done, an MRI scan and a Lumbar puncture. These came back showing some abnormality in the myelin which Mummy says is the white matter in the brain. The Doctor took some blood to send away to get tested to see if I have Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD). My family had to wait three long weeks for the results. It was horrible when the tests came back positive but my family decided to try to remain positive and concentrate on finding a cure. Mummy and Daddy heard about stem cell transplants which were taking place in America so they decided to take me out to see if I was a suitable candidate. This was rather fun for me as I got to go on a big plane! In America they said I was a suitable candidate but Mummy and Daddy decided against it as the risks were too high and the chances of it working for me were low.

Now we are back at home hoping that I will be suitable for a drug trial which is being run by a company called Zymenex.

My family are now trying to raise money to help fund this trial and to help find a cure for me and all of the other people that are affected. My family are arranging lots of charity events to help, my Daddy is even doing a parachute jump from a plane with lots of other people and I think they are all very brave although Mummy says that they are not as brave as me!