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A Brief History

On Christmas day 2011 while Joey and Ginger Adams were visiting family in Pinetop, Az, Ian and Henry, the family’s two 16-month old twin boys had to be airlifted to Phoenix Children’s Hospital with advanced pneumonia. Days of anxiety and prayer followed as both babies were given oxygen, and Ian was put into intensive care…

Making this crisis more disturbing, prior to the birth of the twins, Joey and Ginger Adams had already been devastated by the loss of their 16-month old daughter, Gwen, on November 14th 2009 under startlingly similar circumstances.

Because of this history extreme caution was taken to make sure that what happened to Gwen would not happen to Ian and Henry.

Today there is a pending diagnosis of HLH for Ian and possibly his twin brother Henry. This would also explain why Gwen had died so suddenly in 2009. Because HLH is a genetic disease, it also means that the Adams’s oldest son, Caid (6 years old), could possible have the same disease.

If the diagnosis is correct, the only cure is a successful bone marrow transplant.

Henry is out of the hospital, but Ian remains on a ventilator. Ian was under heavy sedation and is slowly being weened off. Because of the possibility of HLH Ian is also on a high dose steroid treatment and periodic low doses of chemotherapy.

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