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Illinois community supporting kid with life-threatening illness
3 monthes ago | By WGN TV
COAL VALLEY, Ill. - Just days after Mary Matheson gave birth to Liam, doctors diagnosed him with a life-threatening illness.
"He's my entire world," she said. "When he was five days old, we got a call from the pediatrician's office that he was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune deficiency called SKID, or as other people would know it, bubble boy disease, which means he was born without a functioning immune system."
Mary found help for Liam at Lurie Children's in Chicago for a bone marrow transplant and continued treatments.
Driving back and forth from their home in the Quad Cities for most...
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