An eight-year-old boy was diagnosed with an incurable disease while doing exercises.
The schoolboy was diagnosed with a rare disease, due to which, unfortunately, he will not be able to walk or talk.
Patients with this disease live shorter lives than healthy people. They spend most of their time in a wheelchair, the article in The Sun emphasizes.
The boy Leo Powell's mother noticed symptoms of an incurable disease during his morning exercises.
The child's strange behavior first began to appear in 2019. He began to walk unusually and lean to the side.
The boy became very flexible and learned to sit strangely while playing and watching TV, with his legs behind his head.
In 2020, the boy's mother realized that he couldn't handle simple jumps during exercise. Leo's sister, however, was doing great at the exercises that he couldn't do.
The child was diagnosed with dyspraxia in 2021, but symptoms did not improve later.
In September 2024, when the boy lost the ability to move normally, doctors discovered that he had Friedreich's ataxia.
Patients with this condition have a shorter life expectancy and are forced to use a wheelchair for most of their lives.
Now the 11-year-old boy can only move short distances due to leg cramps.
