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Turlock family finds hope with new spinal muscular atrophy drug treatment
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The Goeppert family were all smiles after Cash received his second round of Spinraza at Sutter Children's Center in Sacramento. The new spinal muscular atrophy drug treatment is already showing positive results for Cash. - photo by Photo Contributed
The seven years of young Charleston “Cash” Goeppert’s life have been marked by a lot of nevers — never taken his first step, never crawled, never sat up on his own — but now, thanks to unwavering advocacy from his parents and a new drug treatment, Cash is starting to have a list of firsts. “We are getting to experience our son in a way we never got to do,” said Cash’s father Cameron Goeppert. “It’s like he’s an infant again, like we’ve hit a restart.”
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