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The Fight Of Their Lives

But, three years later, things took a turn. Their son, RJ, wasn’t developing the same way as his sister, Ryan. Doctors told them not to be alarmed, but Holly knew something wasn’t right.

“We noticed that RJ wasn’t connecting with his twin sister in a way that felt very odd to us,” Holly said. “He wasn’t making eye contact with his sister. He wasn’t pointing at things and he was starting to say words but they were disappearing. So, his language was beginning to come and then it was, ‘Where did it go?’ He was about 2 years old.