Dec 21 2008
Movie Review: Lorenzo’s Oil
Photo Credit: Amazon.Com
Ever wonder just how many mountains love can move? This film starring Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon features an exceptional set of parents who take on the international medical community.
Their son afflicted with a debilitating rare disease, these two people with no prior medical knowledge organized symposiums, took on a resistant parent-run foundation, collected data and more in a relentless pursuit of a cure. The result? A medical miracle in record time.
But that was only the first half of the problem. Next came the rebuilding of the myelin to reverse the impact of the disease. This turned into a new collaborative effort called The Myelin Project, something that will positively impact multiple illnesses beyond ALD that launched their family’s odyssey into the arena of medical research.
How have they done it? Sheer will and the pure love present in the parent-child relationship. Worth checking out.
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