Fighting for Hope

摘要

Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, many people would readily concede defeat. Not Julie Cosgrove-Garcia. A 32-year veteran of San Francisco, California, U.S.-based Pacific Gas & Electric, Cosgrove-Garcia learned in 2001 that her youngest child, Nicholas, had Duchenne (pronounced doo-shen) muscular dystrophy, a progressive muscle-wasting disorder that affects primarily boys and for which no treatment or cure presently exists. Rather than accept the doctor's advice to "go home and enjoy your child for as long as you can, because there is nothing we can do," Cosgrove-Garcia chose to become an advocate for Nick and the thousands of other boys and families affected by Duchenne's.