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Family aims to raise $2.5 million to save their toddler, who has an ultrarare neurological disease that turns babies into human time bombs

Henry Saladino, a three-year-old toddler, is afflicted with alternating hemiplegia of childhood, generally known as AHC, a rare neurological disorder whose sufferers are referred to as “human time bombs.”

Mary Saladino spends most of her days cuddling her kid while he violently convulses and whispers to him to save his life. Almost every day, she sees her infant on the verge of death, not breathing, and frequently immobilized.

Child With Rare Neurological Disorder

Henry, her 3-year-old son, has alternating hemiplegia of childhood, or AHC, a rare neurological condition whose patients are called human time bombs.