'Speechless': Community comes together to support family with terminally ill child
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On Saturday, community members from Country Lane Estates RV Resort raised approximately $4,500 for Katie Zipser and Brendon MacLeod, and their 10-month-old son Tucker.
A community just south of Calgary is rallying around a terminally sick little boy.
On Saturday, community members from Country Lane Estates RV Resort raised approximately $4,500 for Katie Zipser and Brendon MacLeod, and their 10-month-old son Tucker.
"I was speechless. I didn't know what to say. … No words could express how grateful we were to see all those people and just to find out how many more people were in our corner that we didn't know we had. It's been amazing," Katie said.
Tucker was born last December and shortly after, he started suffering from seizures, low muscle tone and difficulty breathing.
The family's Christmas was spent in the NICU at the Alberta Children's Hospital.
He was later diagnosed with D-bifunctional protein deficiency, a rare genetic disorder.
His family says he has a life expectancy of two years and that his case is more severe since he was diagnosed shortly after birth.
