Ather is battling a terminal rare genetic condition (DTYMK)

Hello everyone,

I am Ather’s mother and I created this page to help fund the medical research to develop a cure for a rare genetic condition in the DTYMK gene.

My son is currently a year old and was diagnosed with this terminal condition when he was 5 months old. He is being treated at the Montreal childrens hospital. Unfortunately there have only been 4 cases documented in the whole world and based on the condition’s progression we were told that our baby boy will only live to be 5 years old.

This condition causes the death of enzymes in all of the body’s cells and mainly affects the brain. Our son was born healthy and stayed that way until he was 3 months, this is when the death of his brain cells became significant. At 1 year old he cannot sit or speak, he has very low muscle tone, developmental delay, and motor delay.

As a family we are trying to find anything that could help our baby boy however due to how rare the condition it is very difficult to find funding for medical research and therefore there is no cure.

With these funds we will be able to help advance the existing medical research in the hopes for a cure that can save our sunshine before its too late.

All of your donations are greatly appreciated.

Thank you.