Duchenne's

Deb Albright of Hudsonville, Michigan became a single mother and found out the youngest of her three children had Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy all in the same year.

Leann Reynolds: Would You Do This? Profound Stories of Caregiving Leann Reynolds 2011

Deb Albright of Hudsonville, Michigan became a single mother and found out the youngest of her three children had Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy all in the same year.

Leann Reynolds: Would You Do This? Profound Stories of Caregiving Leann Reynolds 2011

Just thinking aloud here, but do they have access to a support group for Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy?

The Invisible Boy | Her Bad Mother 2009

Deb Albright of Hudsonville, Michigan became a single mother and found out the youngest of her three children had Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy all in the same year.

Leann Reynolds: Would You Do This? Profound Stories of Caregiving Leann Reynolds 2011

Deb Albright of Hudsonville, Michigan became a single mother and found out the youngest of her three children had Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy all in the same year.

Leann Reynolds: Would You Do This? Profound Stories of Caregiving Leann Reynolds 2011

Darius Weems, the star of the documentary "Darius Goes West," has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and says in the Athens Banner Herald that he's glad to be alive and achieve something his brother, who also had Duchenne's, wasn't able to live to do.

Graduates with disabilities shine in news coverage BA Haller 2008

He has Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, and his death is inevitable: He will die young and our hearts will break and there is nothing that we can do to stop this.

Catherine Connors: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Now Is the Moment to Hold Your Child 2010

He has Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, and his death is inevitable: He will die young and our hearts will break and there is nothing that we can do to stop this.

Catherine Connors: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Now Is the Moment to Hold Your Child Catherine Connors 2010

And then, one evening, I got a phone call from my mother, telling me that they'd finally gotten the results of the tests and that Tanner had something called Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy.

Archive 2009-01-18 2009

Until maybe a year ago, I had never heard of Duchenne's, but then a family from my hometown had a child diagnosed with it.

Clockwatching 2009