Jeff Wright stoops to lift his 92-pound son out of a
wheelchair. "And up," he groans. "Oomph!"
Adam dangles from his arms, dead weight. Wright plods up
the stairs in their home, carefully swinging the boy's head over a banister.
"Don't want to bump your noggin," he says with a smile, cradling the
helmet on Adam's head.
Wright once had dreams that his son might play football.
Now Adam wears a helmet to protect him from himself. He was born with Joubert
syndrome, a rare combination of genes that only about 450 people in the world
have. It left him gasping for breath —180 times a minute, three times a second.
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