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Hope and help for local boy with fatal muscle-wasting disease

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Posted on October 24, 2009 at 2:58 PM

It's a rare disease that kills victims so slowly, some call it a "25-year tragedy." Now one local family hopes MTV, wheelchairs, and a 5-year-old Bellevue boy can one day help others. KING 5's Owen Lei reports.

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