For the Ayscue family, their journey began with fear and uncertainty. “I had a typical pregnancy with Branson,” their mom explained. “But when he was born, he was very lethargic and not able to take much from a bottle.” At just 3 days old, Branson was transferred from their local hospital to a children’s hospital, where he was diagnosed with nonketotic hyperglycinemia, or NKH. The family was told not to expect him to survive infancy. Months later, on the way to the emergency room once again, they decided to try Wolfson Children’s Hospital with its long-standing collaboration with Nemours Children’s Health in Jacksonville, Florida instead. “That day completely changed our lives,” she said. The neurologist on call, Dr Rappoport, had just seen another patient with NKH. “We could not believe a doctor so close to home had followed a kid with the same diagnosis as ours. We knew then we […]
