{"id":142722,"date":"2025-05-25T10:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=142722"},"modified":"2025-05-25T10:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T14:56:30","slug":"2-children-same-rare-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=142722","title":{"rendered":"2 Children, Same Rare Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 <\/b>Imagine having two young children with the same rare genetic disorder \u2014 one that you carry, too \u2014 that presents like Parkinson\u2019s disease and dystonia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s Erin Cotter&#8217;s world and why \u2014 from northern Pennsylvania \u2014 she sought expert care from Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital Pediatric Unit in Bethlehem, Pa.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trinity \u2014 now 5 years old and a big fan of unicorns \u2014 is starting kindergarten soon, while Wyatt \u2014 4 years old and currently obsessed with Spiderman and Playdoh \u2014 is enrolled in early intervention services. The family currently is at home in the Scranton area.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cMy kids are strong, strong kids,\u201d Erin said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And their mom is pretty strong, too.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Full Story:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodshepherdrehab.org\/about-us\/newsroom\/genetic-disorder-intensive-inpatient-pediatric-rehabilitation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0https:\/\/www.goodshepherdrehab.<wbr \/>org\/about-us\/newsroom\/genetic-<wbr \/>disorder-intensive-inpatient-<wbr \/>pediatric-rehabilitation\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nMike Walbert<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Imagine having two young children with the same rare genetic disorder \u2014 one that you carry, too \u2014 that presents like Parkinson\u2019s disease and dystonia. That&#8217;s Erin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=142722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 Children, Same Rare Disorder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rare-disorder.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}