A Spokane Valley family dealing with devastating diagnoses for two of their little boys has been dealt even more health challenges.
4 News Now featured the Tucker family in an article 2 years ago. Michael was just 6 years old, and Oliver was almost 2 when we met them in 2023. The following day, they were scheduled to undergo surgery in Seattle.
Surgeons inserted a chest port and a shunt in each of the boys’ heads, with a cord that goes back up to it. They get infusions in the port every other week. The hope is that medicine will slow the rare, incurable disease, CLN2 (Batten Disease). It affects about 3 in every 100-thousand children…