A cure for one

摘要

Jennie and Gary Landsman launched an appeal to save their sons on Thanksgiving of 2017. By the end of the weekend the family, who live in Marine Park, Brooklyn, had raised $200,000. In a moving three-minute video posted online, they sit on an overstuffed leather couch. Jennie glances away from the camera, betraying little emotion, as Gary talks. "We need your help, we really do;" Gary says, his voice breaking. The Landsmans' two sons Benny, then 18 months, and Josh, four months both have a fatal genetic brain disorder called Canavan disease. Benny, limp on his mother's lap, is already affected by nerve loss. Josh isn't yet. But he will be if nothing is done.